coleccionar
Portuguese, verb
coleccionar is spelled C-O-L-E-C-C-I-O-N-A-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese, the 84,550th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Coleccionar is a Portuguese verb meaning “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of colecionar; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “reunir em colecção”.
What does coleccionar mean in English?
verb
- 1
pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of colecionar; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. reunir em colecção 2. fazer colecção de 3. coligir
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 coleccionar
- colecciono first-person present singular
- coleccionei first-person preterite singular
- coleccionado participle past
- coleccionares infinitive second-person singular
- coleccionarmos first-person infinitive plural
- coleccionardes infinitive plural second-person
- coleccionarem infinitive plural third-person
- coleccionando gerund
- coleccionados masculine participle past
- coleccionada feminine participle past
- coleccionadas feminine participle past
- coleccionas indicative present second-person
- colecciona indicative present singular
- coleccionamos first-person indicative plural
- coleccionais indicative plural present
- coleccionam indicative plural present
- coleccionava first-person imperfect indicative
- coleccionavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is coleccionar in Portuguese?
coleccionar appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).