alvorecer
Portuguese, noun
alvorecer is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “dawn (morning twilight period)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does alvorecer mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedawn (morning twilight period)
- 2
masculinedawn (the beginning of an event)
verb
- 1
to dawn (to begin to brighten with daylight)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. começar a amanhecer 2. principiar a manifestar-se
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 alvorecer
- alvoreceres plural
- alvoreço first-person present singular
- alvoreci first-person preterite singular
- alvorecido participle past
- c-ç alternation
- alvorecermos first-person infinitive plural
- alvorecerdes infinitive plural second-person
- alvorecerem infinitive plural third-person
- alvorecendo gerund
- alvorecidos masculine participle past
- alvorecida feminine participle past
- alvorecidas feminine participle past
- alvoreces indicative present second-person
- alvorece indicative present singular
- alvorecemos first-person indicative plural
- alvoreceis indicative plural present
- alvorecem indicative plural present
- alvorecia first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to alvorecer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is alvorecer in Portuguese?
alvorecer appears 1.1 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).