esposa
Portuguese, noun
esposa is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “female equivalent of esposo: wife” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, espôsa is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “o cônjuge de sexo feminino”.
What does esposa mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininefemale equivalent of esposo: wife
- 2
feminineobsoletebride
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 esposa; female equivalent of espôso
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. o cônjuge de sexo feminino 2. mulher casada
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 esposa
- esposas plural
- espôsa alternative
- espôsas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to esposa
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is esposa in Portuguese?
esposa appears 98 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).