diástole
Portuguese, noun/d͡ʒiˈas.to.li/
diástole is spelled D-I-Á-S-T-O-L-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written Portuguese, the 141,055th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Diástole is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “diastole (period when the heart refills with blood)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fase do ciclo cardíaco sucessora da sístole em que ocorre o relaxamento da musculatura atrial e ventricular”.
What does diástole mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininediastole (period when the heart refills with blood)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. fase do ciclo cardíaco sucessora da sístole em que ocorre o relaxamento da musculatura atrial e ventricular 2. alongamento de sílaba breve 3. deslocamento do acento tônico para uma sílaba posterior (por exemplo, no latim clássico muliere, acentuado no i, para latim vulgar muliére, donde mulher)
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 diástole
- diástoles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce diástole?
- Brazil /d͡ʒiˈas.to.li/
- Brazil /ˈd͡ʒjas.to.li/
- /d͡ʒiˈaʃ.to.li/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to diástole
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is diástole in Portuguese?
diástole appears about once in every 23 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).