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?
medicine
2 Fill the gap: Tomo um ___.
Full sentence: Tomo um medicamento. (I take a medicine.)
3 Which fingerprint chart matches medicamento?
medicamento: neutral register, common frequency, medical domain, neutral connotation.