domesticar
Portuguese, verb/do.mes.t͡ʃiˈka(ʁ)/
domesticar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to domesticate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar doméstico”.
What does domesticar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to domesticate
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tornar doméstico 2. amansar 3. domar 4. civilizar
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 domesticar
- domestico first-person present singular
- domestiquei first-person preterite singular
- domesticado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- domesticares infinitive second-person singular
- domesticarmos first-person infinitive plural
- domesticardes infinitive plural second-person
- domesticarem infinitive plural third-person
- domesticando gerund
- domesticados masculine participle past
- domesticada feminine participle past
- domesticadas feminine participle past
- domesticas indicative present second-person
- domestica indicative present singular
- domesticamos first-person indicative plural
- domesticais indicative plural present
- domesticam indicative plural present
- domesticava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce domesticar?
- Brazil /do.mes.t͡ʃiˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [do.mes.t͡ʃiˈka(h)]
- /do.mes.t͡ʃiˈka(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 domesticar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is domesticar in Portuguese?
domesticar 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).