areté
Portuguese, noun
areté is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “arete (virtue, excellence)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, aretê is a different word: “alternative form of areté”.
What does areté mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininearete (virtue, excellence)
noun
- 1
femininealternative form of areté
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of areté
- aretê alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to areté
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is areté in Portuguese?
areté appears about once in every 31 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).