glaciar
Portuguese, noun/ɡla.siˈa(ʁ)/
glaciar is spelled G-L-A-C-I-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 41,886th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Glaciar is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “glacier (body of flowing ice)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “depósito de neve que extravasa formando como um rio gelado que desce pelos desfiladeiros e que se parte em…”.
What does glaciar mean in English?
noun
- 1
Portugalmasculineglacier (body of flowing ice)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. depósito de neve que extravasa formando como um rio gelado que desce pelos desfiladeiros e que se parte em grandes pedaços quando em contato com algum lago ou mar, pedaços que, boiando, parecem montanhas de gelo e se chamam aicebergues
verb: 1. transformar(-se) em gelo
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 glaciar
- glaciares plural
- glaciando gerund
- glaciado participle
- glacio singular first-person indicative
- glacias singular second-person indicative
- glacia singular third-person indicative
- glaciamos plural first-person indicative
- glaciais plural second-person indicative
- glaciam plural third-person indicative
- glaciava singular first-person indicative
- glaciavas singular second-person indicative
- glaciávamos plural first-person indicative
- glaciáveis plural second-person indicative
- glaciavam plural third-person indicative
- glaciei singular first-person indicative
- glaciaste singular second-person indicative
- glaciou singular third-person indicative
- glaciámos plural first-person indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce glaciar?
- Brazil /ɡla.siˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ɡla.siˈa(h)]
- Brazil /ɡlaˈsja(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 glaciar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is glaciar in Portuguese?
glaciar appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).