disciplinar
Portuguese, verb/d͡ʒi.si.pliˈna(ʁ)/
disciplinar is spelled D-I-S-C-I-P-L-I-N-A-R (11 letters) and appears 3.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 15,528th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Disciplinar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to discipline (train someone by instruction and practice)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “aplicar ou submeter a disciplina”.
What does disciplinar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to discipline (train someone by instruction and practice)
- 2
to discipline (teach someone to obey authority)
- 3
to discipline (punish someone in order to (re)gain control)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. relativo à disciplina:
verb: 1. aplicar ou submeter a disciplina: 2. corrigir, obrigar a cumprir normas:
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 disciplinar
- disciplino first-person present singular
- disciplinei first-person preterite singular
- disciplinado participle past
- disciplinares infinitive second-person singular
- disciplinarmos first-person infinitive plural
- disciplinardes infinitive plural second-person
- disciplinarem infinitive plural third-person
- disciplinando gerund
- disciplinados masculine participle past
- disciplinada feminine participle past
- disciplinadas feminine participle past
- disciplinas indicative present second-person
- disciplina indicative present singular
- disciplinamos first-person indicative plural
- disciplinais indicative plural present
- disciplinam indicative plural present
- disciplinava first-person imperfect indicative
- disciplinavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce disciplinar?
- Brazil /d͡ʒi.si.pliˈna(ʁ)/
- Brazil [d͡ʒi.si.pliˈna(h)]
- /d͡ʒi.si.pliˈna(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 disciplinar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is disciplinar in Portuguese?
disciplinar appears 3.5 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).