cessar
Portuguese, verb/seˈsa(ʁ)/
cessar is spelled C-E-S-S-A-R (6 letters) and appears 7.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 8,736th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cessar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to cease” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “interromper, não continuar”.
What does cessar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cease
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. interromper, não continuar 2. parar de fazer algo
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 cessar
- cesso first-person present singular
- cessei first-person preterite singular
- cessado participle past
- cessares infinitive second-person singular
- cessarmos first-person infinitive plural
- cessardes infinitive plural second-person
- cessarem infinitive plural third-person
- cessando gerund
- cessados masculine participle past
- cessada feminine participle past
- cessadas feminine participle past
- cessas indicative present second-person
- cessa indicative present singular
- cessamos first-person indicative plural
- cessais indicative plural present
- cessam indicative plural present
- cessava first-person imperfect indicative
- cessavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cessar?
- Brazil /seˈsa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [seˈsa(h)]
- /seˈsa(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 cessar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cessar in Portuguese?
cessar appears 7.9 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).