enaltecimento
Portuguese, noun/e.naw.te.siˈmẽ.tu/
enaltecimento is spelled E-N-A-L-T-E-C-I-M-E-N-T-O (13 letters) and appears about once in every 18 million words in written Portuguese, the 127,225th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enaltecimento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “the act of greatly praising or complimenting someone” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato ou efeito de enaltecer”.
What does enaltecimento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinethe act of greatly praising or complimenting someone
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 enaltecer
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 enaltecimento
- enaltecimentos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enaltecimento?
- Brazil /e.naw.te.siˈmẽ.tu/
- Brazil [e.naʊ̯.te.siˈmẽ.tu]
- Portugal /i.nal.tɨ.siˈmẽ.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is enaltecimento in Portuguese?
enaltecimento appears about once in every 18 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).