comporta
Portuguese, noun/kõˈpɔʁ.tɐ/
comporta is spelled C-O-M-P-O-R-T-A (8 letters) and appears 5.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 11,018th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Comporta is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “floodgate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of comportar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “porta móvel que sustém as águas de uma represa, um dique, um açude etc”.
What does comporta mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininefloodgate
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. porta móvel que sustém as águas de uma represa, um dique, um açude etc.
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 comporta
- comportas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce comporta?
- Brazil /kõˈpɔʁ.tɐ/
- Brazil [kõˈpɔh.tɐ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to comporta
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is comporta in Portuguese?
comporta appears 5.8 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).