cantarolar
Portuguese, verb/kɐ̃.ta.ɾoˈla(ʁ)/
cantarolar is spelled C-A-N-T-A-R-O-L-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 63,394th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cantarolar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to hum” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cantar desafinadamente”.
What does cantarolar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hum
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. cantar desafinadamente 2. cantar em voz baixa; trautear
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 cantarolar
- cantarolo first-person present singular
- cantarolei first-person preterite singular
- cantarolado participle past
- cantarolares infinitive second-person singular
- cantarolarmos first-person infinitive plural
- cantarolardes infinitive plural second-person
- cantarolarem infinitive plural third-person
- cantarolando gerund
- cantarolados masculine participle past
- cantarolada feminine participle past
- cantaroladas feminine participle past
- cantarolas indicative present second-person
- cantarola indicative present singular
- cantarolamos first-person indicative plural
- cantarolais indicative plural present
- cantarolam indicative plural present
- cantarolava first-person imperfect indicative
- cantarolavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cantarolar?
- Brazil /kɐ̃.ta.ɾoˈla(ʁ)/
- Brazil [kɐ̃.ta.ɾoˈla(h)]
- /kɐ̃.ta.ɾoˈla(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 cantarolar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cantarolar in Portuguese?
cantarolar appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).