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cultivar

Portuguese, noun/kuw.t͡ʃiˈva(ʁ)/

cultivar is spelled C-U-L-T-I-V-A-R (8 letters) and appears 5.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 11,018th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cultivar is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “cultivar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “variedade híbrida de vegetal obtida mediante cultivo”.

What does cultivar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to cultivate; to grow (plants, etc.)

  2. 2

    to cultivate; to nurture

  3. 3

    to perfect; to develop; to thrive

noun

  1. 1

    masculinecultivar

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. variedade híbrida de vegetal obtida mediante cultivo

verb: 1. amanhar 2. dar condições para o nascimento e desenvolvimento de (vegetais, fungos ou bactérias) 3. procurar formar; desenvolver; progredir 4. aplicar-se ou dedicar-se 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 cultivar

  • cultivo first-person present singular
  • cultivei first-person preterite singular
  • cultivado participle past
  • cultivares infinitive second-person singular
  • cultivarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • cultivardes infinitive plural second-person
  • cultivarem infinitive plural third-person
  • cultivando gerund
  • cultivados masculine participle past
  • cultivada feminine participle past
  • cultivadas feminine participle past
  • cultivas indicative present second-person
  • cultiva indicative present singular
  • cultivamos first-person indicative plural
  • cultivais indicative plural present
  • cultivam indicative plural present
  • cultivava first-person imperfect indicative
  • cultivavas imperfect indicative second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce cultivar?

  • Brazil /kuw.t͡ʃiˈva(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [kuʊ̯.t͡ʃiˈva(h)]
  • /kuw.t͡ʃiˈva(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 cultivar

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is cultivar in Portuguese?

cultivar appears 5.8 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).

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