aorta
Portuguese, noun/aˈɔʁ.tɐ/
aorta is spelled A-O-R-T-A (5 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 31,685th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aorta is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “aorta (great artery)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “maior e mais importante artéria do sistema circulatório do corpo humano”.
What does aorta mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineaorta (great artery)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. maior e mais importante artéria do sistema circulatório do corpo humano
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 aorta
- aortas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aorta?
- Brazil /aˈɔʁ.tɐ/
- Brazil [aˈɔh.tɐ]
- /aˈɔɾ.tɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to aorta
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is aorta in Portuguese?
aorta appears 1.1 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).