protectorado
Portuguese, noun
protectorado is spelled P-R-O-T-E-C-T-O-R-A-D-O (12 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 57,216th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Protectorado is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of protetorado; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does protectorado mean in English?
noun
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masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of protetorado; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of protectorado
- protectorados plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is protectorado in Portuguese?
protectorado appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).