calcificar
Portuguese, verb/kaw.si.fiˈka(ʁ)/
calcificar is spelled C-A-L-C-I-F-I-C-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 71 million words in written Portuguese, the 232,157th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Calcificar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to calcify” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “sofrer calcificação”.
What does calcificar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to calcify
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sofrer calcificação
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 calcificar
- calcifico first-person present singular
- calcifiquei first-person preterite singular
- calcificado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- calcificares infinitive second-person singular
- calcificarmos first-person infinitive plural
- calcificardes infinitive plural second-person
- calcificarem infinitive plural third-person
- calcificando gerund
- calcificados masculine participle past
- calcificada feminine participle past
- calcificadas feminine participle past
- calcificas indicative present second-person
- calcifica indicative present singular
- calcificamos first-person indicative plural
- calcificais indicative plural present
- calcificam indicative plural present
- calcificava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce calcificar?
- Brazil /kaw.si.fiˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [kaʊ̯.si.fiˈka(h)]
- /kaw.si.fiˈka(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 calcificar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is calcificar in Portuguese?
calcificar appears about once in every 71 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).