aminoácido

See also: aminoacido

Galician

Noun

aminoácido m (plural aminoácidos)

1. (organic chemistry) amino acid

See also

• Category:gl:Amino acids

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˌmĩ.noˈa.si.du/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˌmĩ.noˈa.si.du/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˌmi.noˈa.si.do/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˌmi.nɔˈa.si.du/ [ɐˌmi.nɔˈa.si.ðu]

• Audio (Brazil (Caipira)):

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• Hyphenation: a‧mi‧no‧á‧ci‧do

Noun

aminoácido m (plural aminoácidos)

1. (organic chemistry) amino acid (any organic compound containing amino and carboxylic acid)
2. (biochemistry) amino acid (any of the twenty α-amino acids)

Further reading

• “aminoácido”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “aminoácido”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English amino acid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aminoˈaθido/ [a.mi.noˈa.θi.ð̞o] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /aminoˈasido/ [a.mi.noˈa.si.ð̞o] (Latin America, Philippines)

• Audio (Venezuela):

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• Rhymes: -aθido (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• Rhymes: -asido (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: a‧mi‧no‧á‧ci‧do

Noun

aminoácido m (plural aminoácidos)

1. (organic chemistry) amino acid
   • 2009, Purves, David Sadava, Vida, Ed. Médica Panamericana →ISBN, page 264

     El código genético no es ambiguo: un aminoácido dado puede estar codificado por más de un codón, pero un codón puede codificar sólo un aminoácido.

     Genetic code is not ambiguous: a given amino acid may be encoded by more than one codon, but a codon may encode only one amino acid.

Derived terms

• aminoacídico
• aminoácido esencial

Further reading

• “aminoácido”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025