ceara
Portuguese, verb
ceara is spelled C-E-A-R-A (5 letters) and appears 42 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 2,226th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ceara is a Portuguese verb meaning “first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of cear” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, ceará is a different word: “third-person singular future indicative of cear”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “terceira pessoa do singular do pretérito mais-que-perfeito do indicativo do verbo cear”.
What does ceara mean in English?
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of cear
verb
- 1
third-person singular future indicative of cear
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. estado brasileiro localizado no centro-norte da Região Nordeste do Brasil; faz divisa com Rio Grande do Norte e Paraíba ao leste; Pernambuco ao sul; Piauí ao oeste; ao norte e nordeste possui divisa com o Oceano Atlântico; sua capital é Fortaleza
verb: 1. terceira pessoa do singular do pretérito mais-que-perfeito do indicativo do verbo cear
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 ceara in Portuguese?
ceara appears 42 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).