coxear
Portuguese, verb/ko.ʃeˈa(ʁ)/
coxear is spelled C-O-X-E-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written Portuguese, the 131,183rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Coxear is a Portuguese verb meaning “to limp” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “andar inclinando-se para um dos lados por defeito ou doença num pé ou numa perna”.
What does coxear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to limp
- 2
to be defective
- 3
to falter, to hesitate
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. andar inclinando-se para um dos lados por defeito ou doença num pé ou numa perna
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 coxear
- coxeio first-person present singular
- coxeei first-person preterite singular
- coxeado participle past
- coxeares infinitive second-person singular
- coxearmos first-person infinitive plural
- coxeardes infinitive plural second-person
- coxearem infinitive plural third-person
- coxeando gerund
- coxeados masculine participle past
- coxeada feminine participle past
- coxeadas feminine participle past
- coxeias indicative present second-person
- coxeia indicative present singular
- coxeamos first-person indicative plural
- coxeais indicative plural present
- coxeiam indicative plural present
- coxeava first-person imperfect indicative
- coxeavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce coxear?
- Brazil /ko.ʃeˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ko.ʃeˈa(h)]
- /ko.ʃeˈa(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 coxear
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is coxear in Portuguese?
coxear appears about once in every 19 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).