emudecer
Portuguese, verb/e.mu.deˈse(ʁ)/
emudecer is spelled E-M-U-D-E-C-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 25 million words in written Portuguese, the 145,565th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Emudecer is a Portuguese verb meaning “to mute, to silence, to make quiet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar mudo”.
What does emudecer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to mute, to silence, to make quiet
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tornar mudo 2. remover o som; silenciar 3. atordoar, deixar sem reação
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 emudecer
- emudeço first-person present singular
- emudeci first-person preterite singular
- emudecido participle past
- c-ç alternation
- emudeceres infinitive second-person singular
- emudecermos first-person infinitive plural
- emudecerdes infinitive plural second-person
- emudecerem infinitive plural third-person
- emudecendo gerund
- emudecidos masculine participle past
- emudecida feminine participle past
- emudecidas feminine participle past
- emudeces indicative present second-person
- emudece indicative present singular
- emudecemos first-person indicative plural
- emudeceis indicative plural present
- emudecem indicative plural present
- emudecia first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce emudecer?
- Brazil /e.mu.deˈse(ʁ)/
- Brazil [e.mu.deˈse(h)]
- /e.mu.deˈse(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 emudecer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is emudecer in Portuguese?
emudecer appears about once in every 25 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).