meditar
Spanish, verb/mediˈtaɾ/
meditar is spelled M-E-D-I-T-A-R (7 letters) and appears 3.2 times per million words in written Spanish, the 16,530th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Meditar is a Spanish verb meaning “to meditate (rest while remaining conscious)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Aplicar con profunda atención el pensamiento a la consideración de una cosa, o discurrir sobre los medios de…”.
What does meditar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to meditate (rest while remaining conscious)
- 2
to meditate, to ponder, to contemplate
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Aplicar con profunda atención el pensamiento a la consideración de una cosa, o discurrir sobre los medios de conocerla o conseguirla.
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 meditar
- medito first-person present singular
- medité first-person preterite singular
- meditado participle past
- meditando gerund
- meditada feminine participle past
- meditados masculine participle past
- meditadas feminine participle past
- meditas indicative informal present
- meditás indicative informal present
- medita indicative present singular
- meditamos first-person indicative plural
- meditáis indicative plural present
- meditan indicative plural present
- meditaba first-person imperfect indicative
- meditabas imperfect indicative second-person
- meditábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- meditabais imperfect indicative plural
- meditaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce meditar?
- /mediˈtaɾ/
- [me.ð̞iˈt̪aɾ]
- [með̞iˈt̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to meditar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is meditar in Spanish?
meditar appears 3.2 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).