destilar
Portuguese, verb/des.t͡ʃiˈla(ʁ)/
destilar is spelled D-E-S-T-I-L-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 61,435th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Destilar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to distill (to subject a substance to distillation)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “deixar cair gota a gota”.
What does destilar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to distill (to subject a substance to distillation)
- 2
to drip
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. deixar cair gota a gota 2. exsudar
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 destilar
- destilo first-person present singular
- destilei first-person preterite singular
- destilado participle past
- destilares infinitive second-person singular
- destilarmos first-person infinitive plural
- destilardes infinitive plural second-person
- destilarem infinitive plural third-person
- destilando gerund
- destilados masculine participle past
- destilada feminine participle past
- destiladas feminine participle past
- destilas indicative present second-person
- destila indicative present singular
- destilamos first-person indicative plural
- destilais indicative plural present
- destilam indicative plural present
- destilava first-person imperfect indicative
- destilavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce destilar?
- Brazil /des.t͡ʃiˈla(ʁ)/
- Brazil [des.t͡ʃiˈla(h)]
- Portugal /dɨʃ.ti.ˈlaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to destilar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is destilar in Portuguese?
destilar appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).