medicamento

/medʒikaˈmẽtu/

o noun B1

o (masc.) a (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Common Domain Medical Tone Neutral
Word fingerprint: Register: neutral. Era: current. Frequency: common. Domain: medical. Connotation: neutral.

Forms

plural
os medicamentos

Meaning

  1. medicine

    • Tomo um medicamento.

      I take a medicine.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual
Meaning fingerprint: Category: thing. Concreteness: concrete. Animacy: inanimate. Countability: countable. Scope: individual.

Similar words

remédio

medicamento is a specific medication or drug; remédio is the everyday word for medicine or remedy, very common in Brazilian Portuguese.

Similar in other languages

Spanish

medicina

medicina is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "medicine."

French

médecine

médecine is the French word for the same thing — both mean "medicine."

Practice

1 What does medicamento mean?

2 Fill the gap: Tomo um ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches medicamento?

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