apostatar
Spanish, verb/apostaˈtaɾ/
apostatar is spelled A-P-O-S-T-A-T-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written Spanish, the 138,166th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Apostatar is a Spanish verb meaning “to apostatize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Negar la fe cristiana que fue recibida al ser bautizado, declarando por tanto, a través de este acto, la…”.
What does apostatar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to apostatize
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Negar la fe cristiana que fue recibida al ser bautizado, declarando por tanto, a través de este acto, la voluntad de dejar de ser cristiano. 2. Abandonar un religioso su orden de forma irregular. 3. Cambiar en las opiniones o doctrinas personales, como el abandono de un partido politico (con su correspondiente ideología), para ingresar en otro diferente.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of apostatar
- apostato first-person present singular
- apostaté first-person preterite singular
- apostatado participle past
- apostatando gerund
- apostatada feminine participle past
- apostatados masculine participle past
- apostatadas feminine participle past
- apostatas indicative informal present
- apostatás indicative informal present
- apostata indicative present singular
- apostatamos first-person indicative plural
- apostatáis indicative plural present
- apostatan indicative plural present
- apostataba first-person imperfect indicative
- apostatabas imperfect indicative second-person
- apostatábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- apostatabais imperfect indicative plural
- apostataban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce apostatar?
- /apostaˈtaɾ/
- [a.pos.t̪aˈt̪aɾ]
- [apost̪aˈt̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to apostatar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is apostatar in Spanish?
apostatar appears about once in every 14 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).