etos
Portuguese, noun/ˈɛ.tus/
etos is spelled E-T-O-S (4 letters) and appears about once in every 43 million words in written Portuguese, the 185,713th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Etos is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “ethos (the character or fundamental values of a person, people, culture or movement)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “conjunto de comportamento característico a um grupo social”.
What does etos mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineethos (the character or fundamental values of a person, people, culture or movement)
- 2
masculineethos (part of classical rhetoric focused on the study of social customs)
suffix
- 1
plural of -eto
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. conjunto de comportamento característico a um grupo social 2. os valores e ideologias de um movimento cultural 3. as características morais, éticas e comportamentais de um indivíduo
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.
How do you pronounce etos?
- Brazil /ˈɛ.tus/
- /ˈɛ.tuʃ/
- Portugal /ˈɛ.tuʃ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is etos in Portuguese?
etos appears about once in every 43 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).