arresto
Portuguese, noun/aˈʁɛs.tu/
arresto is spelled A-R-R-E-S-T-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese, the 87,166th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arresto is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “sequestration of a debtor’s assets” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of arrestar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “apreensão judicial dos bens de um devedor, necessários à garantia de uma dívida, cuja cobrança foi ou vai ser…”.
What does arresto mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesequestration of a debtor’s assets
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of arrestar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. apreensão judicial dos bens de um devedor, necessários à garantia de uma dívida, cuja cobrança foi ou vai ser ajuizada; embargo
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 arresto
- arrestos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce arresto?
- Brazil /aˈʁɛs.tu/
- Brazil [aˈhɛs.tu]
- /aˈʁɛʃ.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is arresto in Portuguese?
arresto appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).