protease
Portuguese, noun/pɾo.teˈa.zi/
protease is spelled P-R-O-T-E-A-S-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written Portuguese, the 97,539th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Protease is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “protease (any of a group of enzymes that cleave proteins)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “enzima que quebra ligações peptídicas entre os aminoácidos das proteínas”.
What does protease mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineprotease (any of a group of enzymes that cleave proteins)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. enzima que quebra ligações peptídicas entre os aminoácidos das proteínas
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 protease
- proteases plural
- protéase alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce protease?
- Brazil /pɾo.teˈa.zi/
- Portugal /pɾɔˈtja.zɨ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to protease
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is protease in Portuguese?
protease appears about once in every 10 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).