passamento
Portuguese, noun/pa.saˈmẽ.tu/
passamento is spelled P-A-S-S-A-M-E-N-T-O (10 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese, the 93,598th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Passamento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “death (act of passing from life to death)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “morte”.
What does passamento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedeath (act of passing from life to death)
- 2
masculineagony
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. morte 2. agonia 3. passagem, ato de passar
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 passamento
- passamentos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce passamento?
- Brazil /pa.saˈmẽ.tu/
- Portugal /pɐ.sɐˈmẽ.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is passamento in Portuguese?
passamento appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).