fagocitar
Portuguese, verb
fagocitar is spelled F-A-G-O-C-I-T-A-R (9 letters). Fagocitar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to absorb, swallow up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “realizar a fagocitose; processo celular que resume-se a englobar algo alheio à célula e introduzi-lo dentro…”.
What does fagocitar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to absorb, swallow up
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. realizar a fagocitose; processo celular que resume-se a englobar algo alheio à célula e introduzi-lo dentro da célula para digeri-lo
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 fagocitar
- fagocito first-person present singular
- fagocitei first-person preterite singular
- fagocitado participle past
- fagocitares infinitive second-person singular
- fagocitarmos first-person infinitive plural
- fagocitardes infinitive plural second-person
- fagocitarem infinitive plural third-person
- fagocitando gerund
- fagocitados masculine participle past
- fagocitada feminine participle past
- fagocitadas feminine participle past
- fagocitas indicative present second-person
- fagocita indicative present singular
- fagocitamos first-person indicative plural
- fagocitais indicative plural present
- fagocitam indicative plural present
- fagocitava first-person imperfect indicative
- fagocitavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).