feto
Portuguese, noun/ˈfɛ.tu/
feto is spelled F-E-T-O (4 letters) and appears 4.6 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 13,032nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Feto is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “fetus (human embryo after the eighth week of gestation)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “embrião dos mamíferos de vida intra-uterina”.
What does feto mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefetus (human embryo after the eighth week of gestation)
- 2
masculinefetus (unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal)
noun
- 1
Portugalmasculinefern (any of a group of plants in the division Pteridophyta)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. embrião dos mamíferos de vida intra-uterina 2. germe
noun: 1. nome vulgar dado a várias plantas pteridófitas, criptógamas, da ordem dos filicales
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 feto
- fetos plural
- feeyto alternative archaic
- fento alternative dialectal
- feito alternative dialectal
- fieito alternative dialectal
- féntão alternative dialectal
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce feto?
- Brazil /ˈfɛ.tu/
- Portugal /ˈfɛ.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to feto
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is feto in Portuguese?
feto appears 4.6 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).