sustento
Portuguese, noun/susˈtẽ.tu/
sustento is spelled S-U-S-T-E-N-T-O (8 letters) and appears 4.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 12,620th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sustento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “sustenance, support” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of sustentar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato ou efeito de sustentar”.
What does sustento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesustenance, support
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of sustentar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ato ou efeito de sustentar. 2. sustentação; conservação; alimento.
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 sustento
- sustentos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sustento?
- Brazil /susˈtẽ.tu/
- /suʃˈtẽ.tu/
- Portugal /suʃˈtẽ.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 sustento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sustento in Portuguese?
sustento appears 4.8 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).