desterro
Portuguese, noun/desˈte.ʁu/
desterro is spelled D-E-S-T-E-R-R-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 43,330th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desterro is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “exile (the state of being banished from one's home or country)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of desterrar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato ou efeito de desterrar; desterramento”.
What does desterro mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineexile (the state of being banished from one's home or country)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of desterrar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ato ou efeito de desterrar; desterramento 2. pena de expulsão da terra 3. local onde se cumpre a pena de desterro 4. estado ou condição de pessoa que vive isolada da sociedade
noun: 1. município brasileiro do estado da Paraíba
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 desterro
- desterros plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desterro?
- Brazil /desˈte.ʁu/
- Brazil [desˈte.hu]
- Brazil /d͡ʒisˈte.ʁu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to desterro
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is desterro in Portuguese?
desterro appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).