oficiar
Portuguese, verb/o.fi.siˈa(ʁ)/
oficiar is spelled O-F-I-C-I-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese, the 101,652nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Oficiar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to officiate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “presidir ao ofício divino ou celebrá-lo”.
What does oficiar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to officiate
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. presidir ao ofício divino ou celebrá-lo 2. expedir ofício
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 oficiar
- oficio first-person present singular
- oficiei first-person preterite singular
- oficiado participle past
- oficiares infinitive second-person singular
- oficiarmos first-person infinitive plural
- oficiardes infinitive plural second-person
- oficiarem infinitive plural third-person
- oficiando gerund
- oficiados masculine participle past
- oficiada feminine participle past
- oficiadas feminine participle past
- oficias indicative present second-person
- oficia indicative present singular
- oficiamos first-person indicative plural
- oficiais indicative plural present
- oficiam indicative plural present
- oficiava first-person imperfect indicative
- oficiavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce oficiar?
- Brazil /o.fi.siˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [o.fi.siˈa(h)]
- Brazil /o.fiˈsja(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is oficiar in Portuguese?
oficiar appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).