incitar
Portuguese, verb/ĩ.siˈta(ʁ)/
incitar is spelled I-N-C-I-T-A-R (7 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 27,777th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Incitar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to incite (rouse, stir up or excite)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “instigar”.
What does incitar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to incite (rouse, stir up or excite)
- 2
to urge
Devemos incitar o governo a ajudar os imigrantes.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. instigar 2. excitar 3. desafiar
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 incitar
- incito first-person present singular
- incitei first-person preterite singular
- incitado participle past
- incitares infinitive second-person singular
- incitarmos first-person infinitive plural
- incitardes infinitive plural second-person
- incitarem infinitive plural third-person
- incitando gerund
- incitados masculine participle past
- incitada feminine participle past
- incitadas feminine participle past
- incitas indicative present second-person
- incita indicative present singular
- incitamos first-person indicative plural
- incitais indicative plural present
- incitam indicative plural present
- incitava first-person imperfect indicative
- incitavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce incitar?
- Brazil /ĩ.siˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ĩ.siˈta(h)]
- /ĩ.siˈta(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to incitar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is incitar in Portuguese?
incitar appears 1.4 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).