encerar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.seˈɾa(ʁ)/
encerar is spelled E-N-C-E-R-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese, the 106,884th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encerar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to wax (to apply wax to)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “aplicar cera ou substância similar sobre (madeira, couro etc.)”.
What does encerar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to wax (to apply wax to)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. aplicar cera ou substância similar sobre (madeira, couro etc.)
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 encerar
- encero first-person present singular
- encerei first-person preterite singular
- encerado participle past
- encerares infinitive second-person singular
- encerarmos first-person infinitive plural
- encerardes infinitive plural second-person
- encerarem infinitive plural third-person
- encerando gerund
- encerados masculine participle past
- encerada feminine participle past
- enceradas feminine participle past
- enceras indicative present second-person
- encera indicative present singular
- enceramos first-person indicative plural
- encerais indicative plural present
- enceram indicative plural present
- encerava first-person imperfect indicative
- enceravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce encerar?
- Brazil /ẽ.seˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.seˈɾa(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.seˈɾa(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 encerar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is encerar in Portuguese?
encerar appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).