beneficente
Portuguese, noun/be.ne.fiˈsẽ.t͡ʃi/
beneficente is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “benefit (event to raise funds)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does beneficente mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebenefit (event to raise funds)
adjective
- 1
femininemasculinewhich benefits
- 2
femininemasculinewhich is undertaken to raise funds
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que traz benefício, que faz caridade; beneficiador; caritativo, filantrópico 2. o mesmo que benéfico
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 beneficente
- beneficentes plural
- beneficiente alternative proscribed
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce beneficente?
- Brazil /be.ne.fiˈsẽ.t͡ʃi/
- Portugal /bɨ.nɨ.fiˈsẽ.tɨ/
- Portugal /bɨ.nɨ.fi.ˈsẽ.tɨ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to beneficente
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is beneficente in Portuguese?
beneficente appears 2.8 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).