estertor
Portuguese, noun/is.teʁˈtoʁ/
estertor is spelled E-S-T-E-R-T-O-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written Portuguese, the 159,424th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Estertor is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “raucus breathing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “som cavo que caracteriza a respiração dos moribundos”.
What does estertor mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineraucus breathing
- 2
masculinean abnormal breathing sound heard during auscultation
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. som cavo que caracteriza a respiração dos moribundos 2. agonia
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 estertor
- estertores plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce estertor?
- Brazil /is.teʁˈtoʁ/
- Brazil [is.tehˈtoh]
- Brazil /es.teʁˈtoʁ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is estertor in Portuguese?
estertor appears about once in every 30 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).