acendia
Portuguese, verb
acendia is spelled A-C-E-N-D-I-A (7 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 68,000th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Acendia is a Portuguese verb meaning “first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of acender” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “terceira pessoa do singular do pretérito imperfeito do indicativo do verbo acender”.
What does acendia mean in English?
verb
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first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of acender
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. terceira pessoa do singular do pretérito imperfeito do indicativo do verbo acender
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.
How common is acendia in Portuguese?
acendia appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).