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parasito

Portuguese, verb

parasito is a Portuguese verb meaning “first-person singular present indicative of parasitar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does parasito mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of parasitar

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. diz-se de organismo que vive à custa de outro 2. que vive à custa de outros

noun: 1. organismo animal ou vegetal que vive à custa de outro 2. pessoa que vive à custa de outra

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 common is parasito in Portuguese?

parasito appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).