nominar
Portuguese, verb/no.miˈna(ʁ)/
nominar is spelled N-O-M-I-N-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 25 million words in written Portuguese, the 145,565th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nominar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to name (give a name to)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “dar nome a”.
What does nominar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to name (give a name to)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. dar nome a
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 nominar
- nomino first-person present singular
- nominei first-person preterite singular
- nominado participle past
- nominares infinitive second-person singular
- nominarmos first-person infinitive plural
- nominardes infinitive plural second-person
- nominarem infinitive plural third-person
- nominando gerund
- nominados masculine participle past
- nominada feminine participle past
- nominadas feminine participle past
- nominas indicative present second-person
- nomina indicative present singular
- nominamos first-person indicative plural
- nominais indicative plural present
- nominam indicative plural present
- nominava first-person imperfect indicative
- nominavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce nominar?
- Brazil /no.miˈna(ʁ)/
- Brazil [no.miˈna(h)]
- /no.miˈna(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is nominar in Portuguese?
nominar appears about once in every 25 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).