caiar
Portuguese, verb/kajˈa(ʁ)/
caiar is spelled C-A-I-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 52 million words in written Portuguese, the 203,084th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Caiar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to whitewash; to lime (to paint a surface with lime and water)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pintar com cal diluída em água, só ou misturada com cola e/ou tinta”.
What does caiar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to whitewash; to lime (to paint a surface with lime and water)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. pintar com cal diluída em água, só ou misturada com cola e/ou tinta 2. branquear (a pele) com cosméticos: 3. encobrir, disfarçar, mascarar
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 caiar
- caio first-person present singular
- caiei first-person preterite singular
- caiado participle past
- caiares infinitive second-person singular
- caiarmos first-person infinitive plural
- caiardes infinitive plural second-person
- caiarem infinitive plural third-person
- caiando gerund
- caiados masculine participle past
- caiada feminine participle past
- caiadas feminine participle past
- caias indicative present second-person
- caia indicative present singular
- caiamos first-person indicative plural
- caiais indicative plural present
- caiam indicative plural present
- caiava first-person imperfect indicative
- caiavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce caiar?
- Brazil /kajˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [kaɪ̯ˈa(h)]
- /kajˈa(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 caiar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is caiar in Portuguese?
caiar appears about once in every 52 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).