cera
Portuguese, noun
cera is spelled C-E-R-A (4 letters) and appears 6.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 10,139th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cera is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “wax (oily, water-resistant substance)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of cerar. With an accent, cêra is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “substância que constitui os favos das abelhas”.
What does cera mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininewax (oily, water-resistant substance)
- 2
feminineearwax, cerumen
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
noun
- 1
femininepre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of cera
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. substância que constitui os favos das abelhas 2. cerume 3. ato ou o seu resultado em proceder de forma a tornar o inicio da realização de determinada ação o mais futuro no tempo quanto for possível
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 cera
- ceras plural
- cêra alternative
- cêras plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to cera
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cera in Portuguese?
cera appears 6.5 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).