enlatar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.laˈta(ʁ)/
enlatar is spelled E-N-L-A-T-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 76 million words in written Portuguese, the 239,085th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enlatar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to can (to seal in a can)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “preservar algo em uma lata”.
What does enlatar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to can (to seal in a can)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. preservar algo em uma lata
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 enlatar
- enlato first-person present singular
- enlatei first-person preterite singular
- enlatado participle past
- enlatares infinitive second-person singular
- enlatarmos first-person infinitive plural
- enlatardes infinitive plural second-person
- enlatarem infinitive plural third-person
- enlatando gerund
- enlatados masculine participle past
- enlatada feminine participle past
- enlatadas feminine participle past
- enlatas indicative present second-person
- enlata indicative present singular
- enlatamos first-person indicative plural
- enlatais indicative plural present
- enlatam indicative plural present
- enlatava first-person imperfect indicative
- enlatavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enlatar?
- Brazil /ẽ.laˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.laˈta(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.laˈta(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is enlatar in Portuguese?
enlatar appears about once in every 76 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).