maltês
Portuguese, noun
maltês is spelled M-A-L-T-Ê-S (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 41,886th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Maltês is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “Maltese (inhabitant of Malta)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, maltes is a different word: “second-person singular present subjunctive of maltar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “natural da República de Malta”.
What does maltês mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineMaltese (inhabitant of Malta)
- 2
masculineMaltese (Semitic language of Malta)
- 3
masculinea knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
adjective
- 1
Maltese (of Malta)
- 2
Maltese (of the Maltese language)
- 3
whose fur is primarily blue or gray
- 4
of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
noun
- 1
masculineday labourer
- 2
masculinevagabond
verb
- 1
second-person singular present subjunctive of maltar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. natural da República de Malta 2. relativo a ou língua semítica falada na República de Malta; dialeto de Malta 3. trabalhador que vive em maltas 4. cavaleiro da Ordem Militar de Malta
adjective: 1. de Malta 2. da Ordem Militar de Malta 3. relativo ou pertencente a Fregim
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 maltês
- malteses plural
- maltesa feminine
- maltesas feminine plural
- maltez alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to maltês
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is maltês in Portuguese?
maltês appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).