acatamento
Portuguese, noun/ɐ.kɐ.tɐ.ˈmẽ.tu/
acatamento is spelled A-C-A-T-A-M-E-N-T-O (10 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written Portuguese, the 128,503rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Acatamento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “observance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato ou efeito de acatar; ato de cumprir com respeito, por cortesia ou deferência”.
What does acatamento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineobservance
- 2
masculinecompliance
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ato ou efeito de acatar; ato de cumprir com respeito, por cortesia ou deferência:
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 acatamento
- acatamentos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce acatamento?
- Portugal /ɐ.kɐ.tɐ.ˈmẽ.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is acatamento in Portuguese?
acatamento appears about once in every 19 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).