dormitar
Portuguese, verb/doʁ.miˈta(ʁ)/
dormitar is spelled D-O-R-M-I-T-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 24 million words in written Portuguese, the 144,068th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dormitar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to doze or nap” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cochilar”.
What does dormitar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to doze or nap
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. cochilar 2. dormir um sono leve 3. descansar a vista 4. fazer a sesta
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 dormitar
- dormito first-person present singular
- dormitei first-person preterite singular
- dormitado participle past
- dormitares infinitive second-person singular
- dormitarmos first-person infinitive plural
- dormitardes infinitive plural second-person
- dormitarem infinitive plural third-person
- dormitando gerund
- dormitados masculine participle past
- dormitada feminine participle past
- dormitadas feminine participle past
- dormitas indicative present second-person
- dormita indicative present singular
- dormitamos first-person indicative plural
- dormitais indicative plural present
- dormitam indicative plural present
- dormitava first-person imperfect indicative
- dormitavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dormitar?
- Brazil /doʁ.miˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [doɦ.miˈta(h)]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dormitar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dormitar in Portuguese?
dormitar appears about once in every 24 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).