escoltar
Portuguese, verb/is.kowˈta(ʁ)/
escoltar is spelled E-S-C-O-L-T-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 44,272nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escoltar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to escort (to guard someone or something as they go somewhere)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fazer escolta”.
What does escoltar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to escort (to guard someone or something as they go somewhere)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fazer escolta 2. acompanhar algo que se quer ou que se foi contratado para proteger 3. acompanhar
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 escoltar
- escolto first-person present singular
- escoltei first-person preterite singular
- escoltado participle past
- escoltares infinitive second-person singular
- escoltarmos first-person infinitive plural
- escoltardes infinitive plural second-person
- escoltarem infinitive plural third-person
- escoltando gerund
- escoltados masculine participle past
- escoltada feminine participle past
- escoltadas feminine participle past
- escoltas indicative present second-person
- escolta indicative present singular
- escoltamos first-person indicative plural
- escoltais indicative plural present
- escoltam indicative plural present
- escoltava first-person imperfect indicative
- escoltavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escoltar?
- Brazil /is.kowˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.koʊ̯ˈta(h)]
- Brazil /es.kowˈta(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to escoltar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is escoltar in Portuguese?
escoltar 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).