colectar
Portuguese, verb
colectar is a Portuguese verb meaning “pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of coletar; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tributar”.
What does colectar mean in English?
verb
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pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of coletar; 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. tributar 2. impor contribuição ou quota a
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 colectar
- colecto first-person present singular
- colectei first-person preterite singular
- colectado participle past
- colectares infinitive second-person singular
- colectarmos first-person infinitive plural
- colectardes infinitive plural second-person
- colectarem infinitive plural third-person
- colectando gerund
- colectados masculine participle past
- colectada feminine participle past
- colectadas feminine participle past
- colectas indicative present second-person
- colecta indicative present singular
- colectamos first-person indicative plural
- colectais indicative plural present
- colectam indicative plural present
- colectava first-person imperfect indicative
- colectavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is colectar in Portuguese?
colectar appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).