sustentado
Portuguese, verb
sustentado is spelled S-U-S-T-E-N-T-A-D-O (10 letters) and appears 3.2 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 16,696th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sustentado is a Portuguese verb meaning “past participle of sustentar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does sustentado mean in English?
verb
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past participle of sustentar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. algo ou alguém que se sustentou 2. que foi resguardado, apoiado 3. diz-se daquele que admitiu ser sustentado financeiramente por outrem 4. que permanece durante um tempo maior do que o normal, andamento
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 sustentado
- sustentada feminine
- sustentados masculine plural
- sustentadas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is sustentado in Portuguese?
sustentado appears 3.2 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).