deriva
Portuguese, noun/deˈɾi.vɐ/
deriva is spelled D-E-R-I-V-A (6 letters) and appears 7.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 8,870th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Deriva is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “drift (course or direction along which anything is driven; setting)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of derivar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “desvio da rota (de aeronave ou barco)”.
What does deriva mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininedrift (course or direction along which anything is driven; setting)
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. desvio da rota (de aeronave ou barco) 2. parte móvel localizada na traseira de uma embarcação ou no leme de um aeronave (avião, foguete, etc) também na traseira
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 deriva
- derivas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce deriva?
- Brazil /deˈɾi.vɐ/
- Portugal /dɨˈɾi.vɐ/
- Portugal /dɨˈɾi.bɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to deriva
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is deriva in Portuguese?
deriva appears 7.8 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).