encenar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.seˈna(ʁ)/
encenar is spelled E-N-C-E-N-A-R (7 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 30,857th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encenar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to stage (to produce on a stage)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pôr em cena; fazer representar no palco”.
What does encenar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to stage (to produce on a stage)
- 2
to stage (to demonstrate in a deceptive manner)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. pôr em cena; fazer representar no palco 2. representar; iludir
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 encenar
- enceno first-person present singular
- encenei first-person preterite singular
- encenado participle past
- encenares infinitive second-person singular
- encenarmos first-person infinitive plural
- encenardes infinitive plural second-person
- encenarem infinitive plural third-person
- encenando gerund
- encenados masculine participle past
- encenada feminine participle past
- encenadas feminine participle past
- encenas indicative present second-person
- encena indicative present singular
- encenamos first-person indicative plural
- encenais indicative plural present
- encenam indicative plural present
- encenava first-person imperfect indicative
- encenavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce encenar?
- Brazil /ẽ.seˈna(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.seˈna(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.seˈna(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to encenar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is encenar in Portuguese?
encenar appears 1.1 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).