🇵🇹 Portuguese

remédio

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masculine

o remédio

medicine

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remédio
/u ʁeˈmɛdʒiu/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say remédio in Portuguese?

IPA
/u ʁeˈmɛdʒiu/

How do you pronounce remédio in Portuguese?

remédio is pronounced /u ʁeˈmɛdʒiu/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

O remédio novo é muito eficaz contra a gripe.

The new medicine is very effective against the flu.

Aquele remédio antigo foi descontinuado pelo laboratório responsável.

That old medicine was discontinued by the responsible laboratory.

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Why is it masculine?

Remédio is masculine because it derives from Latin "remedium" (a neuter noun), which became masculine in Portuguese following the general sound changes that caused most Latin neuter nouns ending in -ium to shift to the masculine -o ending during the language's development. This gender shift reflects a broader pattern in Romance languages where Latin neuter forms were reanalyzed and absorbed into masculine or feminine classes.

What is the Portuguese word for medicine?

The Portuguese word for medicine is o remédio — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchmédicamentlemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishmedicina flips!lafeminine
🇮🇹 Italianmedicina flips!lafeminine

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