aborto
Portuguese, noun
aborto is spelled A-B-O-R-T-O (6 letters) and appears 17 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 4,707th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aborto is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “abortion, miscarriage (loss of a fetus or embryo)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of abortar. With an accent, abôrto is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “remoção ou expulsão prematura de um embrião ou feto do útero, resultando na sua morte ou sendo por esta…”.
What does aborto mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineabortion, miscarriage (loss of a fetus or embryo)
- 2
masculineabortion; failure (an abandoned project)
- 3
colloquialderogatorymasculinemonstrosity (someone or something very ugly)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of abortar
noun
- 1
masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of aborto
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. remoção ou expulsão prematura de um embrião ou feto do útero, resultando na sua morte ou sendo por esta causada
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of aborto
- abortos plural
- abôrto alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to aborto
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is aborto in Portuguese?
aborto appears 17 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).