capitaneado
Portuguese, verb
capitaneado is spelled C-A-P-I-T-A-N-E-A-D-O (11 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 50,402nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Capitaneado is a Portuguese verb meaning “past participle of capitanear” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does capitaneado mean in English?
verb
- 1
past participle of capitanear
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. liderado ou comandado pelo capitão 2. que pode ser governado, dirigido, liderado ou comandado
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 capitaneado
- capitaneada feminine
- capitaneados masculine plural
- capitaneadas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is capitaneado in Portuguese?
capitaneado appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).