substrato
Portuguese, noun/su.bisˈtɾa.tu/
substrato is spelled S-U-B-S-T-R-A-T-O (9 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 26,311th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Substrato is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “substrate (the material or substance on which an enzyme acts)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “camada que está por baixo”.
What does substrato mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesubstrate (the material or substance on which an enzyme acts)
- 2
masculinesubstratum (a layer that lies underneath another)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. camada que está por baixo
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 substrato
- substratos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce substrato?
- Brazil /su.bisˈtɾa.tu/
- Brazil /subsˈtɾa.tu/
- /su.bisˈtɾa.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to substrato
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is substrato in Portuguese?
substrato appears 1.5 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).