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enfarte

Portuguese, noun/ẽˈfaʁ.t͡ʃi/

enfarte is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “infarct, heart attack” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “necrose de um tecido corporal causada por interrupção abrupta do suprimento sanguíneo para o mesmo (isquémia)”.

What does enfarte mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineinfarct, heart attack

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. necrose de um tecido corporal causada por interrupção abrupta do suprimento sanguíneo para o mesmo (isquémia)

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 enfarte

  • enfartes plural
  • infarto alternative

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

How do you pronounce enfarte?

  • Brazil /ẽˈfaʁ.t͡ʃi/
  • Brazil [ẽˈfah.t͡ʃi]
  • Brazil /ĩˈfaʁ.t͡ʃi/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to enfarte

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is enfarte in Portuguese?

enfarte appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).