violento
Portuguese, adjective/vi.oˈlẽ.tu/
violento is spelled V-I-O-L-E-N-T-O (8 letters) and appears 12 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 6,384th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Violento is a Portuguese adjective meaning “violent (involving extreme force or motion)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of violentar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “exercido com força”.
What does violento mean in English?
adjective
- 1
violent (involving extreme force or motion)
- 2
violent (involving physical conflict)
- 3
violent (likely to use physical force)
- 4
caused by aggression or accident; not natural
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of violentar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. exercido com força 2. que age usando da força bruta 3. que se opõem ao direito e à justiça
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 violento
- violenta feminine
- violentos masculine plural
- violentas feminine plural
- mais violento comparative
- o mais violento superlative
- violentíssimo superlative
- violentinho diminutive
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce violento?
- Brazil /vi.oˈlẽ.tu/
- Brazil /vjoˈlẽ.tu/
- Portugal /vjuˈlẽ.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 violento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is violento in Portuguese?
violento appears 12 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).