limiar
Portuguese, noun/li.miˈa(ʁ)/
limiar is spelled L-I-M-I-A-R (6 letters) and appears 2.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 17,997th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Limiar is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “threshold, border, limit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “limite, fronteira entre duas áreas, épocas ou períodos; extremo”.
What does limiar mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinethreshold, border, limit
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Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. limite, fronteira entre duas áreas, épocas ou períodos; extremo
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 limiar
- limiares plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce limiar?
- Brazil /li.miˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [li.miˈa(h)]
- Brazil /liˈmja(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 limiar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is limiar in Portuguese?
limiar appears 2.8 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).