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cecear

Portuguese, verb/se.seˈa(ʁ)/

cecear is a Portuguese verb meaning “to lisp (to pronounce the sibilant letter /s/ imperfectly)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pronunciar com dificuldade as consoantes sibilantes; pronunciar como fonema /θ/ os sons das fricativas…”.

What does cecear mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to lisp (to pronounce the sibilant letter /s/ imperfectly)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. pronunciar com dificuldade as consoantes sibilantes; pronunciar como fonema /θ/ os sons das fricativas alveolares surdas e sonoras

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 cecear

  • ceceio first-person present singular
  • ceceei first-person preterite singular
  • ceceado participle past
  • ceceares infinitive second-person singular
  • cecearmos first-person infinitive plural
  • ceceardes infinitive plural second-person
  • cecearem infinitive plural third-person
  • ceceando gerund
  • ceceados masculine participle past
  • ceceada feminine participle past
  • ceceadas feminine participle past
  • ceceias indicative present second-person
  • ceceia indicative present singular
  • ceceamos first-person indicative plural
  • ceceais indicative plural present
  • ceceiam indicative plural present
  • ceceava first-person imperfect indicative
  • ceceavas imperfect indicative second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce cecear?

  • Brazil /se.seˈa(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [se.seˈa(h)]
  • /se.seˈa(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 cecear

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.