estro
Portuguese, noun/ˈɛs.tɾu/
estro is spelled E-S-T-R-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese, the 92,647th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Estro is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “heat (condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cio, momento, período de excitação sexual”.
What does estro mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineheat (condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. cio, momento, período de excitação sexual 2. entusiasmo artístico 3. riqueza de imaginação 4. superfície, pavimento do forno de pedra tradicional
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 estro
- estros plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce estro?
- Brazil /ˈɛs.tɾu/
- /ˈɛʃ.tɾu/
- Portugal /ˈɛʃ.tɾu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to estro
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is estro in Portuguese?
estro appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).