esquentado
Portuguese, adjective/is.kẽˈta.du/
esquentado is spelled E-S-Q-U-E-N-T-A-D-O (10 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese, the 79,437th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Esquentado is a Portuguese adjective meaning “heated (made warm or hot)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of esquentar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “que se esquentou; aquecido, requentado”.
What does esquentado mean in English?
adjective
- 1
heated (made warm or hot)
- 2
warmed-over (reheated)
- 3
prickly (easily irritated)
- 4
irritated
verb
- 1
past participle of esquentar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que se esquentou; aquecido, requentado 2. irritadiço, irascível, exaltado
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 esquentado
- esquentada feminine
- esquentados masculine plural
- esquentadas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce esquentado?
- Brazil /is.kẽˈta.du/
- Brazil /es.kẽˈta.du/
- /iʃ.kẽˈta.du/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is esquentado in Portuguese?
esquentado appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).