apitar
Portuguese, verb/a.piˈta(ʁ)/
apitar is spelled A-P-I-T-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 35,921st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Apitar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to whistle using a whistle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “dar sinal sonoro”.
What does apitar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to whistle using a whistle
- 2
to be the referee of a match
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. dar sinal sonoro 2. tocar o apito
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 apitar
- apito first-person present singular
- apitei first-person preterite singular
- apitado participle past
- apitares infinitive second-person singular
- apitarmos first-person infinitive plural
- apitardes infinitive plural second-person
- apitarem infinitive plural third-person
- apitando gerund
- apitados masculine participle past
- apitada feminine participle past
- apitadas feminine participle past
- apitas indicative present second-person
- apita indicative present singular
- apitamos first-person indicative plural
- apitais indicative plural present
- apitam indicative plural present
- apitava first-person imperfect indicative
- apitavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce apitar?
- Brazil /a.piˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.piˈta(h)]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is apitar in Portuguese?
apitar appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).