enclausurar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.klaw.zuˈɾa(ʁ)/
enclausurar is spelled E-N-C-L-A-U-S-U-R-A-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 21 million words in written Portuguese, the 136,722nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enclausurar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to cloister (to confine in a cloister)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “colocar em clausura”.
What does enclausurar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cloister (to confine in a cloister)
- 2
to pen; to enclose
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. colocar em clausura 2. trancar, prender, isolar
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 enclausurar
- enclausuro first-person present singular
- enclausurei first-person preterite singular
- enclausurado participle past
- enclausurares infinitive second-person singular
- enclausurarmos first-person infinitive plural
- enclausurardes infinitive plural second-person
- enclausurarem infinitive plural third-person
- enclausurando gerund
- enclausurados masculine participle past
- enclausurada feminine participle past
- enclausuradas feminine participle past
- enclausuras indicative present second-person
- enclausura indicative present singular
- enclausuramos first-person indicative plural
- enclausurais indicative plural present
- enclausuram indicative plural present
- enclausurava first-person imperfect indicative
- enclausuravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enclausurar?
- Brazil /ẽ.klaw.zuˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.klaʊ̯.zuˈɾa(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.klaw.zuˈɾa(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 enclausurar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is enclausurar in Portuguese?
enclausurar appears about once in every 21 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).