corcovar
Portuguese, verb/koʁ.koˈva(ʁ)/
corcovar is spelled C-O-R-C-O-V-A-R (8 letters). Corcovar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to bend” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “arquear ou curvar o corpo”.
What does corcovar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bend
- 2
to buck (said of a horse)
- 3
to become a hunchback
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. arquear ou curvar o corpo. 2. formar uma corcova, tornar-se corcunda, acorcundar.
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 corcovar
- corcovo first-person present singular
- corcovei first-person preterite singular
- corcovado participle past
- corcovares infinitive second-person singular
- corcovarmos first-person infinitive plural
- corcovardes infinitive plural second-person
- corcovarem infinitive plural third-person
- corcovando gerund
- corcovados masculine participle past
- corcovada feminine participle past
- corcovadas feminine participle past
- corcovas indicative present second-person
- corcova indicative present singular
- corcovamos first-person indicative plural
- corcovais indicative plural present
- corcovam indicative plural present
- corcovava first-person imperfect indicative
- corcovavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce corcovar?
- Brazil /koʁ.koˈva(ʁ)/
- Brazil [koh.koˈva(h)]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.