dissecar
Portuguese, verb/d͡ʒi.seˈka(ʁ)/
dissecar is spelled D-I-S-S-E-C-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 64,715th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dissecar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to dissect” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cortar, dividir, separar com instrumentos cirúrgicos os órgãos ou os tecidos de um cadáver, animal morto ou…”.
What does dissecar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dissect
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. cortar, dividir, separar com instrumentos cirúrgicos os órgãos ou os tecidos de um cadáver, animal morto ou vegetal 2. analisar minuciosamente
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 dissecar
- disseco first-person present singular
- dissequei first-person preterite singular
- dissecado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- dissecares infinitive second-person singular
- dissecarmos first-person infinitive plural
- dissecardes infinitive plural second-person
- dissecarem infinitive plural third-person
- dissecando gerund
- dissecados masculine participle past
- dissecada feminine participle past
- dissecadas feminine participle past
- dissecas indicative present second-person
- disseca indicative present singular
- dissecamos first-person indicative plural
- dissecais indicative plural present
- dissecam indicative plural present
- dissecava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dissecar?
- Brazil /d͡ʒi.seˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [d͡ʒi.seˈka(h)]
- /d͡ʒi.seˈka(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 dissecar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dissecar in Portuguese?
dissecar 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).