acicatar
Portuguese, verb/a.si.kaˈta(ʁ)/
acicatar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to spur” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “esporear ou incitar com os acicates (o animal)”.
What does acicatar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to spur
- 2
to encourage, to incite
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. esporear ou incitar com os acicates (o animal) 2. incentivar; estimular
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 acicatar
- acicato first-person present singular
- acicatei first-person preterite singular
- acicatado participle past
- acicatares infinitive second-person singular
- acicatarmos first-person infinitive plural
- acicatardes infinitive plural second-person
- acicatarem infinitive plural third-person
- acicatando gerund
- acicatados masculine participle past
- acicatada feminine participle past
- acicatadas feminine participle past
- acicatas indicative present second-person
- acicata indicative present singular
- acicatamos first-person indicative plural
- acicatais indicative plural present
- acicatam indicative plural present
- acicatava first-person imperfect indicative
- acicatavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce acicatar?
- Brazil /a.si.kaˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.si.kaˈta(h)]
- /a.si.kaˈta(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.