potentado
Portuguese, noun/po.tẽˈta.du/
potentado is spelled P-O-T-E-N-T-A-D-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 18 million words in written Portuguese, the 127,225th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Potentado is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “potentate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “soberano de poder absoluto”.
What does potentado mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepotentate
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. soberano de poder absoluto 2. homem muito poderoso
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 potentado
- potentados plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce potentado?
- Brazil /po.tẽˈta.du/
- Portugal /pu.tẽˈta.du/
- Portugal [pu.tẽˈta.ðu]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to potentado
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is potentado in Portuguese?
potentado appears about once in every 18 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).