executou

Executou is a verb form in Portuguese, the third-person singular pretérito perfeito simples of the verb "executar." It translates to English as "he/she/you carried out" or "he/she/you performed" and is used to indicate that a task, plan, action, or order was carried out in the past. The sense can apply across domains such as project management (executou o plano), law (executar a sentença), operations (executou a tarefa), or computing (executou o programa).

Etymology: from Latin exsequī via the verb "executar." The related noun "execução" means the act of carrying out or performing. The form "executou" corresponds to a past, third-person subject.

Conjugation and usage notes: As a regular -ar verb in the pretérito perfeito, its principal forms are: eu executei, tu executaste, ele/ela/você executou, nós executamos, vós executastes, eles/elas/vocês executaram. In formal writing, "executou" is common; in informal Brazilian Portuguese, "você executou" is also standard.

Synonyms and related terms include realizar, cumprir, levar a cabo, efetuar, desempenhar. Antonyms might include abandonar, interromper, falhar.

Context and scope: The term appears in legal, administrative, technical, and everyday narrative texts. It can describe the completion of an action by a person or by a mechanism (for example, a system executing a command). It should not be confused with the noun "execução" (the act of executing) or with "executável" (an executable file in computing.