aprisionar
Portuguese, verb/a.pɾi.zi.oˈna(ʁ)/
aprisionar is spelled A-P-R-I-S-I-O-N-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 37,683rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aprisionar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to incarcerate, imprison (lock away in prison)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fazer prisioneiro; prender; apresar”.
What does aprisionar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to incarcerate, imprison (lock away in prison)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fazer prisioneiro; prender; apresar: 2. prender a valores, conceito ou ideologia:
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 aprisionar
- aprisiono first-person present singular
- aprisionei first-person preterite singular
- aprisionado participle past
- aprisionares infinitive second-person singular
- aprisionarmos first-person infinitive plural
- aprisionardes infinitive plural second-person
- aprisionarem infinitive plural third-person
- aprisionando gerund
- aprisionados masculine participle past
- aprisionada feminine participle past
- aprisionadas feminine participle past
- aprisionas indicative present second-person
- aprisiona indicative present singular
- aprisionamos first-person indicative plural
- aprisionais indicative plural present
- aprisionam indicative plural present
- aprisionava first-person imperfect indicative
- aprisionavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aprisionar?
- Brazil /a.pɾi.zi.oˈna(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.pɾi.zi.oˈna(h)]
- Brazil /a.pɾi.zjoˈna(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to aprisionar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is aprisionar in Portuguese?
aprisionar 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).