laçar
Portuguese, verb/laˈsa(ʁ)/
laçar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to lasso (to capture with a lasso)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “capturar com laço”.
What does laçar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to lasso (to capture with a lasso)
- 2
to lace; to lace up (to fasten something with laces)
- 3
to enlace (to bind or encircle with a laces)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. capturar com laço 2. prender ou apertar com laço 3. conquistar alguém romanticamente; enlaçar
verb: 1. formar-se laço, congelar-se a água ou a umidade da terra
verb: 1. revestir de laca 2. pulverizar com laca 3. esbarrondar-se; desmoronar-se; esboroar-se
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 laçar
- laço first-person present singular
- lacei first-person preterite singular
- laçado participle past
- c-ç alternation
- laçares infinitive second-person singular
- laçarmos first-person infinitive plural
- laçardes infinitive plural second-person
- laçarem infinitive plural third-person
- laçando gerund
- laçados masculine participle past
- laçada feminine participle past
- laçadas feminine participle past
- laças indicative present second-person
- laça indicative present singular
- laçamos first-person indicative plural
- laçais indicative plural present
- laçam indicative plural present
- laçava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce laçar?
- Brazil /laˈsa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [laˈsa(h)]
- /laˈsa(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 laçar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is laçar in Portuguese?
laçar appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).