açoitamento
Portuguese, noun/a.soj.taˈmẽ.tu/
açoitamento is spelled A-Ç-O-I-T-A-M-E-N-T-O (11 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written Portuguese, the 153,088th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Açoitamento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “flogging (the act of beating someone or something with a whip)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato ou efeito de acoitar”.
What does açoitamento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineflogging (the act of beating someone or something with a whip)
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 acoitar
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 açoitamento
- açoitamentos plural
- açoutamento alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce açoitamento?
- Brazil /a.soj.taˈmẽ.tu/
- Brazil [a.soɪ̯.taˈmẽ.tu]
- Portugal /ɐ.soj.tɐˈmẽ.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to açoitamento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is açoitamento in Portuguese?
açoitamento appears about once in every 28 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).