pathos
Portuguese, noun
pathos is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “pathos (the quality of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, páthos is a different word: “alternative spelling of pathos”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “variante ortográfica de páthos”.
What does pathos mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepathos (the quality of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions)
noun
- 1
masculinealternative spelling of pathos
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. paixão, excesso, catástrofe, passagem, passividade, sofrimento, assujeitamento
noun: 1. variante ortográfica de páthos
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 pathos
- páthos alternative
- patos alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to pathos
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pathos in Portuguese?
pathos 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).