acontecimento
Portuguese, noun/a.kõ.te.siˈmẽ.tu/
acontecimento is spelled A-C-O-N-T-E-C-I-M-E-N-T-O (13 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 6,752nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Acontecimento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “event” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “evento”.
What does acontecimento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineevent
- 2
masculinehappening, occurrence
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. evento 2. ação de um objeto físico sobre outro, a observação dessa interação, desse evento
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 acontecimento
- acontecimentos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce acontecimento?
- Brazil /a.kõ.te.siˈmẽ.tu/
- Portugal /ɐ.kõ.tɨ.siˈmẽ.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 acontecimento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is acontecimento in Portuguese?
acontecimento appears 11 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).