infeccionar
Portuguese, verb/ĩ.fek.si.oˈna(ʁ)/
infeccionar is spelled I-N-F-E-C-C-I-O-N-A-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese, the 115,974th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Infeccionar is a Portuguese verb meaning “Brazilian Portuguese standard spelling of infecionar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “gerar infecção; contaminar, contagiar”.
What does infeccionar mean in English?
verb
- 1
Brazilian Portuguese standard spelling of infecionar
- 2
alternative form of infecionar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. gerar infecção; contaminar, contagiar 2. sofrer ou ter infecção 3. tornar impuro, corrompido
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 infeccionar
- infecciono first-person present singular
- infeccionei first-person preterite singular
- infeccionado participle past
- infeccionares infinitive second-person singular
- infeccionarmos first-person infinitive plural
- infeccionardes infinitive plural second-person
- infeccionarem infinitive plural third-person
- infeccionando gerund
- infeccionados masculine participle past
- infeccionada feminine participle past
- infeccionadas feminine participle past
- infeccionas indicative present second-person
- infecciona indicative present singular
- infeccionamos first-person indicative plural
- infeccionais indicative plural present
- infeccionam indicative plural present
- infeccionava first-person imperfect indicative
- infeccionavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce infeccionar?
- Brazil /ĩ.fek.si.oˈna(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ĩ.fek.si.oˈna(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.fek.sjoˈna(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is infeccionar in Portuguese?
infeccionar appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).