aterrar
Portuguese, verb/a.teˈʁa(ʁ)/
aterrar is spelled A-T-E-R-R-A-R (7 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 32,895th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aterrar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to land” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “retornar à terra; pousar (o avião); aterrissar”.
What does aterrar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to land
- 2
to dock
- 3
to fill or cover with earth
- 4
to raise (a field) with earth or rubble
- 5
to ground
- 6
archaicto knock down
- 7
to burrow (of an animal)
- 8
to fall down, to fall to earth
verb
- 1
to terrorize
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. retornar à terra; pousar (o avião); aterrissar 2. fazer aterro; depositar o lixo em aterro 3. cobrir com terra; fazer montículo; atulhar 4. conectar o circuito elétrico ao solo
verb: 1. causar terror; aterrorizar; fazer medo
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 aterrar
- aterro first-person present singular
- aterrei first-person preterite singular
- aterrado participle past
- aterrares infinitive second-person singular
- aterrarmos first-person infinitive plural
- aterrardes infinitive plural second-person
- aterrarem infinitive plural third-person
- aterrando gerund
- aterrados masculine participle past
- aterrada feminine participle past
- aterradas feminine participle past
- aterras indicative present second-person
- aterra indicative present singular
- aterramos first-person indicative plural
- aterrais indicative plural present
- aterram indicative plural present
- aterrava first-person imperfect indicative
- aterravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aterrar?
- Brazil /a.teˈʁa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.teˈha(h)]
- /a.teˈʁa(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 aterrar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is aterrar in Portuguese?
aterrar appears 1.0 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).