desacato
Spanish, noun
desacato is spelled D-E-S-A-C-A-T-O (8 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written Spanish, the 24,044th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desacato is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “contempt (open disrespect or willful disobedience of the authority)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of desacatar. With an accent, desacató is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of desacatar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Desprecio hacia la justicia”.
What does desacato mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecontempt (open disrespect or willful disobedience of the authority)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of desacatar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of desacatar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Desprecio hacia la justicia.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of desacato
- desacatos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to desacato
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is desacato in Spanish?
desacato appears 1.8 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).