infectar
Portuguese, verb/ĩ.fekˈta(ʁ)/
infectar is spelled I-N-F-E-C-T-A-R (8 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 32,500th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Infectar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to infect” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “causar ou sofrer contágio ou contaminação”.
What does infectar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to infect
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. causar ou sofrer contágio ou contaminação 2. corromper(-se) moralmente 3. introduzir vírus em computador ou contaminar-se por ele
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 infectar
- infecto first-person present singular
- infectei first-person preterite singular
- infectado participle past
- infectares infinitive second-person singular
- infectarmos first-person infinitive plural
- infectardes infinitive plural second-person
- infectarem infinitive plural third-person
- infectando gerund
- infectados masculine participle past
- infectada feminine participle past
- infectadas feminine participle past
- infectas indicative present second-person
- infecta indicative present singular
- infectamos first-person indicative plural
- infectais indicative plural present
- infectam indicative plural present
- infectava first-person imperfect indicative
- infectavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce infectar?
- Brazil /ĩ.fekˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ĩ.fekˈta(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.fe.kiˈta(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 infectar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is infectar in Portuguese?
infectar appears 1.0 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).