sir
Portuguese, noun
sir is spelled S-I-R (3 letters) and appears 15 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 5,286th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sir is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “sir (term of address used for knights)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “forma de se tratar e se dirigir a gentil-homem fidalgo nobre”.
What does sir mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesir (term of address used for knights)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. forma de se tratar e se dirigir a gentil-homem fidalgo nobre 2. forma de se tratar e se dirigir formalmente a gentil-homem de elevada notoriedade
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.
How common is sir in Portuguese?
sir appears 15 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).