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desprestígio

Portuguese, noun

desprestígio is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “discredit (loss of prestige)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, desprestigio is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of desprestigiar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ausência de prestígio, o não prestigiar”.

What does desprestígio mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinediscredit (loss of prestige)

verb

as desprestigio
  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of desprestigiar

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. ausência de prestígio, o não prestigiar

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 desprestígio

  • desprestígios plural

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

How common is desprestígio in Portuguese?

desprestígio 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).