afivelar
Portuguese, verb/a.fi.veˈla(ʁ)/
afivelar is spelled A-F-I-V-E-L-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 68 million words in written Portuguese, the 227,016th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Afivelar is a Portuguese verb meaning “buckle (to fasten)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “prender com fivela”.
What does afivelar mean in English?
verb
- 1
buckle (to fasten)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. prender com fivela 2. apertar
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 afivelar
- afivelo first-person present singular
- afivelei first-person preterite singular
- afivelado participle past
- afivelares infinitive second-person singular
- afivelarmos first-person infinitive plural
- afivelardes infinitive plural second-person
- afivelarem infinitive plural third-person
- afivelando gerund
- afivelados masculine participle past
- afivelada feminine participle past
- afiveladas feminine participle past
- afivelas indicative present second-person
- afivela indicative present singular
- afivelamos first-person indicative plural
- afivelais indicative plural present
- afivelam indicative plural present
- afivelava first-person imperfect indicative
- afivelavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce afivelar?
- Brazil /a.fi.veˈla(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.fi.veˈla(h)]
- /a.fi.veˈla(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to afivelar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is afivelar in Portuguese?
afivelar appears about once in every 68 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).