descortinar
Portuguese, verb/des.koʁ.t͡ʃiˈna(ʁ)/
descortinar is spelled D-E-S-C-O-R-T-I-N-A-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese, the 103,739th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Descortinar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to reveal something by opening curtains” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “correr a cortina para deixar ver”.
What does descortinar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to reveal something by opening curtains
- 2
to reveal (to show what was hidden or unknown)
- 3
to observe a panorama
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. correr a cortina para deixar ver 2. tirar a cortina a 3. avistar; descobrir ao longe
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 descortinar
- descortino first-person present singular
- descortinei first-person preterite singular
- descortinado participle past
- descortinares infinitive second-person singular
- descortinarmos first-person infinitive plural
- descortinardes infinitive plural second-person
- descortinarem infinitive plural third-person
- descortinando gerund
- descortinados masculine participle past
- descortinada feminine participle past
- descortinadas feminine participle past
- descortinas indicative present second-person
- descortina indicative present singular
- descortinamos first-person indicative plural
- descortinais indicative plural present
- descortinam indicative plural present
- descortinava first-person imperfect indicative
- descortinavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce descortinar?
- Brazil /des.koʁ.t͡ʃiˈna(ʁ)/
- Brazil [des.koh.t͡ʃiˈna(h)]
- Brazil /d͡ʒis.koʁ.t͡ʃiˈna(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is descortinar in Portuguese?
descortinar appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).