desacato
Portuguese, noun/de.zaˈka.tu/
desacato is spelled D-E-S-A-C-A-T-O (8 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 30,857th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desacato is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “contempt (open disrespect or willful disobedience of the authority)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of desacatar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “o ato ou efeito de desacatar”.
What does desacato mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecontempt (open disrespect or willful disobedience of the authority)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of desacatar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. o ato ou efeito de desacatar
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 desacato
- desacatos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desacato?
- Brazil /de.zaˈka.tu/
- Brazil /d͡ʒi.zaˈka.tu/
- Portugal /dɨ.zɐˈka.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 desacato
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is desacato in Portuguese?
desacato appears 1.1 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).