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curtimento

Portuguese, noun/kuʁ.t͡ʃiˈmẽ.tu/

curtimento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “tanning, curing (of leather)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does curtimento mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinetanning, curing (of leather)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of curtimento

  • curtimentos plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce curtimento?

  • Brazil /kuʁ.t͡ʃiˈmẽ.tu/
  • Brazil [kuh.t͡ʃiˈmẽ.tu]
  • /kuɾ.t͡ʃiˈmẽ.tu/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to curtimento

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is curtimento in Portuguese?

curtimento appears about once in every 13 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).