aquentar
Portuguese, verb/a.kẽˈta(ʁ)/
aquentar is spelled A-Q-U-E-N-T-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 66 million words in written Portuguese, the 225,105th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aquentar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to warm (up), heat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “aquecer”.
What does aquentar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to warm (up), heat
- 2
to excite, revive
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. aquecer
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 aquentar
- aquento first-person present singular
- aquentei first-person preterite singular
- aquentado participle past
- aquentares infinitive second-person singular
- aquentarmos first-person infinitive plural
- aquentardes infinitive plural second-person
- aquentarem infinitive plural third-person
- aquentando gerund
- aquentados masculine participle past
- aquentada feminine participle past
- aquentadas feminine participle past
- aquentas indicative present second-person
- aquenta indicative present singular
- aquentamos first-person indicative plural
- aquentais indicative plural present
- aquentam indicative plural present
- aquentava first-person imperfect indicative
- aquentavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aquentar?
- Brazil /a.kẽˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.kẽˈta(h)]
- /a.kẽˈta(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is aquentar in Portuguese?
aquentar appears about once in every 66 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).