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lotar

Portuguese, verb/loˈta(ʁ)/

lotar is spelled L-O-T-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 40,483rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lotar is a Portuguese verb meaning “alternative form of lotear” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “distribuir em lotes”.

What does lotar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    alternative form of lotear

  2. 2

    to crowd (to fill with people)

  3. 3

    to become filled with people

  4. 4

    to pack; to cram (to fill as much as possible)

  5. 5

    to become packed, crammed

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. distribuir em lotes 2. determinar a lotação de 3. encher; adicionar (coisas) até atingir o limite

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 lotar

  • loto first-person present singular
  • lotei first-person preterite singular
  • lotado participle past
  • lotares infinitive second-person singular
  • lotarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • lotardes infinitive plural second-person
  • lotarem infinitive plural third-person
  • lotando gerund
  • lotados masculine participle past
  • lotada feminine participle past
  • lotadas feminine participle past
  • lotas indicative present second-person
  • lota indicative present singular
  • lotamos first-person indicative plural
  • lotais indicative plural present
  • lotam indicative plural present
  • lotava first-person imperfect indicative
  • lotavas imperfect indicative second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce lotar?

  • Brazil /loˈta(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [loˈta(h)]
  • /loˈta(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 lotar

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is lotar in Portuguese?

lotar appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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