apadrinhado
Portuguese, verb
apadrinhado is spelled A-P-A-D-R-I-N-H-A-D-O (11 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese, the 73,814th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Apadrinhado is a Portuguese verb meaning “past participle of apadrinhar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does apadrinhado mean in English?
verb
- 1
past participle of apadrinhar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. protegido 2. afilhado
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 apadrinhado
- apadrinhada feminine
- apadrinhados masculine plural
- apadrinhadas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is apadrinhado in Portuguese?
apadrinhado appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).