culminar
Portuguese, verb/kuw.miˈna(ʁ)/
culminar is spelled C-U-L-M-I-N-A-R (8 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 29,633rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Culminar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to culminate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “atingir (um astro) o ponto culminante, o zênite”.
What does culminar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to culminate
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. atingir (um astro) o ponto culminante, o zênite 2. chegar (o Sol, no seu movimento aparente) ao ponto mais elevado: 3. : 4. atingir o ponto mais elevado, o cume
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 culminar
- culmino first-person present singular
- culminei first-person preterite singular
- culminado participle past
- culminares infinitive second-person singular
- culminarmos first-person infinitive plural
- culminardes infinitive plural second-person
- culminarem infinitive plural third-person
- culminando gerund
- culminados masculine participle past
- culminada feminine participle past
- culminadas feminine participle past
- culminas indicative present second-person
- culmina indicative present singular
- culminamos first-person indicative plural
- culminais indicative plural present
- culminam indicative plural present
- culminava first-person imperfect indicative
- culminavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce culminar?
- Brazil /kuw.miˈna(ʁ)/
- Brazil [kuʊ̯.miˈna(h)]
- /kuw.miˈna(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 culminar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is culminar in Portuguese?
culminar appears 1.2 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).