articular
Portuguese, noun/aʁ.t͡ʃi.kuˈla(ʁ)/
articular is spelled A-R-T-I-C-U-L-A-R (9 letters) and appears 3.2 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 16,696th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Articular is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “Meckel's cartilage (endoskeletal part of the mandibular arch of lower vertebrates, which, in mammals, gives rise to the ear ossicle, called…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does articular mean in English?
verb
- 1
to joint (to join by joints)
- 2
to pronounce, to utter
- 3
to organize, to structure (to link in a coherent manner)
- 4
to connect, to joint, to unite
- 5
to itemize (to set out in separate articles or paragraphs)
adjective
- 1
femininemasculinearticular (related to joints)
- 2
femininemasculinearticular (which is of the nature of the grammatical article)
noun
- 1
masculineMeckel's cartilage (endoskeletal part of the mandibular arch of lower vertebrates, which, in mammals, gives rise to the ear ossicle, called the malleus)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. relativo às articulações
verb: 1. pronunciar 2. tramar 3. dobrar uma articulação, unir duas estruturas de maneira não rígida permitindo que uma possa mover-se sobre a outra
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 articular
- articulo first-person present singular
- articulei first-person preterite singular
- articulado participle past
- articulares infinitive second-person singular
- articularmos first-person infinitive plural
- articulardes infinitive plural second-person
- articularem infinitive plural third-person
- articulando gerund
- articulados masculine participle past
- articulada feminine participle past
- articuladas feminine participle past
- articulas indicative present second-person
- articula indicative present singular
- articulamos first-person indicative plural
- articulais indicative plural present
- articulam indicative plural present
- articulava first-person imperfect indicative
- articulavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce articular?
- Brazil /aʁ.t͡ʃi.kuˈla(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ah.t͡ʃi.kuˈla(h)]
- /aɾ.t͡ʃi.kuˈla(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 articular
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is articular in Portuguese?
articular appears 3.2 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).