emoldurar
Portuguese, verb/e.mow.duˈɾa(ʁ)/
emoldurar is spelled E-M-O-L-D-U-R-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 62,059th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Emoldurar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to add a frame to a painting or picture” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cercar de moldura, encaixilhar”.
What does emoldurar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to add a frame to a painting or picture
- 2
to add mouldings to a wall
- 3
to adorn
Sua barba emoldura seu queixo.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. cercar de moldura, encaixilhar 2. guarnecer, ornar em volta
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 emoldurar
- emolduro first-person present singular
- emoldurei first-person preterite singular
- emoldurado participle past
- emoldurares infinitive second-person singular
- emoldurarmos first-person infinitive plural
- emoldurardes infinitive plural second-person
- emoldurarem infinitive plural third-person
- emoldurando gerund
- emoldurados masculine participle past
- emoldurada feminine participle past
- emolduradas feminine participle past
- emolduras indicative present second-person
- emoldura indicative present singular
- emolduramos first-person indicative plural
- emoldurais indicative plural present
- emolduram indicative plural present
- emoldurava first-person imperfect indicative
- emolduravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce emoldurar?
- Brazil /e.mow.duˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [e.moʊ̯.duˈɾa(h)]
- /e.mow.duˈɾa(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 emoldurar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is emoldurar in Portuguese?
emoldurar 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).