esquartejar
Portuguese, verb/is.kwaʁ.teˈʒa(ʁ)/
esquartejar is spelled E-S-Q-U-A-R-T-E-J-A-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese, the 68,701st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Esquartejar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to dismember (to cut off the limbs from a body)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “partir em pedaços; despedaçar, espostejar, retalhar”.
What does esquartejar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dismember (to cut off the limbs from a body)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. partir em pedaços; despedaçar, espostejar, retalhar 2. partir em quatro partes 3. difamar
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 esquartejar
- esquartejo first-person present singular
- esquartejei first-person preterite singular
- esquartejado participle past
- esquartejares infinitive second-person singular
- esquartejarmos first-person infinitive plural
- esquartejardes infinitive plural second-person
- esquartejarem infinitive plural third-person
- esquartejando gerund
- esquartejados masculine participle past
- esquartejada feminine participle past
- esquartejadas feminine participle past
- esquartejas indicative present second-person
- esquarteja indicative present singular
- esquartejamos first-person indicative plural
- esquartejais indicative plural present
- esquartejam indicative plural present
- esquartejava first-person imperfect indicative
- esquartejavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce esquartejar?
- Brazil /is.kwaʁ.teˈʒa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.kwah.teˈʒa(h)]
- Brazil /es.kwaʁ.teˈʒa(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is esquartejar in Portuguese?
esquartejar appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).