esterilizar
Portuguese, verb/is.te.ɾi.liˈza(ʁ)/
esterilizar is spelled E-S-T-E-R-I-L-I-Z-A-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 65,361st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Esterilizar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to sterilize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar estéril”.
What does esterilizar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sterilize
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tornar estéril 2. tornar infértil, impossibilitado de se reproduzir 3. livrar de germes
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 esterilizar
- esterilizo first-person present singular
- esterilizei first-person preterite singular
- esterilizado participle past
- esterilizares infinitive second-person singular
- esterilizarmos first-person infinitive plural
- esterilizardes infinitive plural second-person
- esterilizarem infinitive plural third-person
- esterilizando gerund
- esterilizados masculine participle past
- esterilizada feminine participle past
- esterilizadas feminine participle past
- esterilizas indicative present second-person
- esteriliza indicative present singular
- esterilizamos first-person indicative plural
- esterilizais indicative plural present
- esterilizam indicative plural present
- esterilizava first-person imperfect indicative
- esterilizavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce esterilizar?
- Brazil /is.te.ɾi.liˈza(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.te.ɾi.liˈza(h)]
- Brazil /es.te.ɾi.liˈza(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 esterilizar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is esterilizar in Portuguese?
esterilizar appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).