limitar
Portuguese, verb/li.miˈta(ʁ)/
limitar is spelled L-I-M-I-T-A-R (7 letters) and appears 7.2 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 9,310th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Limitar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to limit, confine, demarcate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pôr limites em; demarcar”.
What does limitar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to limit, confine, demarcate
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. pôr limites em; demarcar 2. impor limites; impedir 3. reduzir a capacidade
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 limitar
- limito first-person present singular
- limitei first-person preterite singular
- limitado participle past
- limitares infinitive second-person singular
- limitarmos first-person infinitive plural
- limitardes infinitive plural second-person
- limitarem infinitive plural third-person
- limitando gerund
- limitados masculine participle past
- limitada feminine participle past
- limitadas feminine participle past
- limitas indicative present second-person
- limita indicative present singular
- limitamos first-person indicative plural
- limitais indicative plural present
- limitam indicative plural present
- limitava first-person imperfect indicative
- limitavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce limitar?
- Brazil /li.miˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [li.miˈta(h)]
- /li.miˈta(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 limitar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is limitar in Portuguese?
limitar appears 7.2 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).