aportuguesamento
Portuguese, noun/a.poʁ.tu.ɡe.zaˈmẽ.tu/
aportuguesamento is spelled A-P-O-R-T-U-G-U-E-S-A-M-E-N-T-O (16 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written Portuguese, the 141,055th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aportuguesamento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “the act of adapting a word into Portuguese” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato ou efeito de aportuguesar”.
What does aportuguesamento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinethe act of adapting a word into Portuguese
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 aportuguesar 2. termo de outra língua que é adaptado fonológica e morfologicamente à língua portuguesa
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 aportuguesamento
- aportuguesamentos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aportuguesamento?
- Brazil /a.poʁ.tu.ɡe.zaˈmẽ.tu/
- Brazil [a.poh.tu.ɡe.zaˈmẽ.tu]
- /a.poɾ.tu.ɡe.zaˈmẽ.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is aportuguesamento in Portuguese?
aportuguesamento appears about once in every 23 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).