desvanecer
Portuguese, verb/dez.va.neˈse(ʁ)/
desvanecer is spelled D-E-S-V-A-N-E-C-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese, the 76,994th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desvanecer is a Portuguese verb meaning “to vanish or cause to vanish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fazer desaparecer”.
What does desvanecer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to vanish or cause to vanish
- 2
to fade
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fazer desaparecer
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 desvanecer
- desvaneço first-person present singular
- desvaneci first-person preterite singular
- desvanecido participle past
- c-ç alternation
- desvaneceres infinitive second-person singular
- desvanecermos first-person infinitive plural
- desvanecerdes infinitive plural second-person
- desvanecerem infinitive plural third-person
- desvanecendo gerund
- desvanecidos masculine participle past
- desvanecida feminine participle past
- desvanecidas feminine participle past
- desvaneces indicative present second-person
- desvanece indicative present singular
- desvanecemos first-person indicative plural
- desvaneceis indicative plural present
- desvanecem indicative plural present
- desvanecia first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desvanecer?
- Brazil /dez.va.neˈse(ʁ)/
- Brazil [dez.va.neˈse(h)]
- Brazil /d͡ʒiz.va.neˈse(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is desvanecer in Portuguese?
desvanecer appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).