esposo
Portuguese, noun
esposo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “husband (male spouse)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of esposar. With an accent, espôso is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “marido”.
What does esposo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehusband (male spouse)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of esposar
noun
- 1
masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of esposo
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. marido
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 esposo
- esposos plural
- esposa feminine
- esposas feminine plural
- metaphonic feminine plural
- espôso alternative
- espôsa feminine
- espôsas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to esposo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is esposo in Portuguese?
esposo appears 4.5 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).