empresa
Portuguese, noun
empresa is spelled E-M-P-R-E-S-A (7 letters) and appears 224 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 415th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Empresa is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “company; business” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of empresar. With an accent, emprêsa is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “companhia”.
What does empresa mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecompany; business
- 2
feminineenterprise
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
noun
- 1
femininepre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of empresa
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. companhia 2. empreendimento
verb: 1. segunda pessoa do singular do imperativo afirmativo do verbo empresar
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 empresa
- empresas plural
- emprêsa alternative
- empreza alternative
- emprêsas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to empresa
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is empresa in Portuguese?
empresa appears 224 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).