pasto
Portuguese, noun
pasto is spelled P-A-S-T-O (5 letters) and appears 1.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 23,227th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pasto is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “pasture (land on which cattle can be kept for feeding)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of pastar. With an accent, pastó is a different word: “Pashto (a language spoken in parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan)”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato de pastar”.
What does pasto mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepasture (land on which cattle can be kept for feeding)
- 2
masculinegrass or herbage suitable for the grazing of livestock
- 3
masculinegrazing (act of eating from a pasture)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of pastar
noun
- 1
masculinePashto (a language spoken in parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan)
noun
- 1
femininemasculinePashtun (a member of the Pashtun ethnic group)
adjective
- 1
femininemasculinePashtun (related to the Pashtun ethnic group or the Pashto language)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ato de pastar 2. campo aberto para alimento do gado 3. comida 4. satisfação; regozijo; assunto
noun: 1. o mesmo que pachto
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 pasto
- pastos plural
- pashto alternative
- pachto alternative
- pachtun alternative
- pastós plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to pasto
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pasto in Portuguese?
pasto appears 1.9 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).