expiar
Portuguese, verb/is.piˈa(ʁ)/
expiar is spelled E-X-P-I-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 68,000th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Expiar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to expiate, to atone for” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fazer penitência”.
What does expiar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to expiate, to atone for
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fazer penitência 2. reparar
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 expiar
- expio first-person present singular
- expiei first-person preterite singular
- expiado participle past
- expiares infinitive second-person singular
- expiarmos first-person infinitive plural
- expiardes infinitive plural second-person
- expiarem infinitive plural third-person
- expiando gerund
- expiados masculine participle past
- expiada feminine participle past
- expiadas feminine participle past
- expias indicative present second-person
- expia indicative present singular
- expiamos first-person indicative plural
- expiais indicative plural present
- expiam indicative plural present
- expiava first-person imperfect indicative
- expiavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce expiar?
- Brazil /is.piˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.piˈa(h)]
- Brazil /isˈpja(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is expiar in Portuguese?
expiar 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).