fomento
Portuguese, noun/foˈmẽ.tu/
fomento is spelled F-O-M-E-N-T-O (7 letters) and appears 3.0 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 17,458th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fomento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “instigation, incitement” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of fomentar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato que visa a promover o desenvolvimento de algo”.
What does fomento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineinstigation, incitement
- 2
masculinedevelopment, promotion or stimulation of activity
Banco de Fomento
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of fomentar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. faminto 2. cobiçoso, avaro
noun: 1. ato que visa a promover o desenvolvimento de algo 2. estímulo, incitação, fomentação 3. medicamento usado para fomentação 4. alívio, lenitivo, refrigério
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 fomento
- fomentos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fomento?
- Brazil /foˈmẽ.tu/
- Portugal /fuˈmẽ.tu/
- Portugal /fu.ˈmẽ.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is fomento in Portuguese?
fomento appears 3.0 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).