desacatar
Portuguese, verb/de.za.kaˈta(ʁ)/
desacatar is spelled D-E-S-A-C-A-T-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written Portuguese, the 119,611th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desacatar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to disrespect” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “faltar ao respeito que se deve a; desrespeitar a autoridade de”.
What does desacatar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to disrespect
- 2
to disobey, to flout (rules, a ruling, etc.)
- 3
to provoke
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. faltar ao respeito que se deve a; desrespeitar a autoridade de 2. afrontar 3. desprezar, menoscabar
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 desacatar
- desacato first-person present singular
- desacatei first-person preterite singular
- desacatado participle past
- desacatares infinitive second-person singular
- desacatarmos first-person infinitive plural
- desacatardes infinitive plural second-person
- desacatarem infinitive plural third-person
- desacatando gerund
- desacatados masculine participle past
- desacatada feminine participle past
- desacatadas feminine participle past
- desacatas indicative present second-person
- desacata indicative present singular
- desacatamos first-person indicative plural
- desacatais indicative plural present
- desacatam indicative plural present
- desacatava first-person imperfect indicative
- desacatavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desacatar?
- Brazil /de.za.kaˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [de.za.kaˈta(h)]
- Brazil /d͡ʒi.za.kaˈta(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to desacatar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is desacatar in Portuguese?
desacatar appears about once in every 16 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).