protegido
Portuguese, verb
protegido is spelled P-R-O-T-E-G-I-D-O (9 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 6,157th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Protegido is a Portuguese verb meaning “past participle of proteger” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does protegido mean in English?
verb
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past participle of proteger
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que ou aquele que recebe de alguém ou de alguma coisa proteção especial 2. válido, favorito
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 protegido
- protegida feminine
- protegidos masculine plural
- protegidas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to protegido
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is protegido in Portuguese?
protegido appears 13 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).