brotava
Portuguese, verb
brotava is a Portuguese verb meaning “first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of brotar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “terceira pessoa do singular do pretérito imperfeito do indicativo do verbo brotar”.
What does brotava mean in English?
verb
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first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of brotar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. terceira pessoa do singular do pretérito imperfeito do indicativo do verbo brotar
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.
How common is brotava in Portuguese?
brotava appears about once in every 10 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).