escravo
Portuguese, noun/isˈkɾa.vu/
escravo is spelled E-S-C-R-A-V-O (7 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 5,502nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escravo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “slave (person owned as property)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pessoa que foi escravizada”.
What does escravo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineslave (person owned as property)
- 2
masculineslave (person forced to work against their will)
- 3
masculineslave (person in a servile condition)
- 4
masculineslave (one who is completely enthralled or controlled by a given entity or phenomenon)
- 5
masculineslave (device subject to control by another device)
- 6
masculineslave (submissive partner in BDSM play)
adjective
- 1
involving or relating to slavery
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que foi escravizado, privado da liberdade
noun: 1. pessoa que foi escravizada 2. pessoa dominada fisicamente ou psicologicamente por algo ou alguém
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 escravo
- escravos plural
- escrava feminine
- escravas feminine plural
- iscravo alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escravo?
- Brazil /isˈkɾa.vu/
- Brazil /esˈkɾa.vu/
- /iʃˈkɾa.vu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to escravo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is escravo in Portuguese?
escravo appears 14 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).