orbitar
Portuguese, verb/oʁ.biˈta(ʁ)/
orbitar is spelled O-R-B-I-T-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 54,857th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Orbitar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to orbit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “girar em torno a algo, dar voltas em redor de algo ou alguém”.
What does orbitar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to orbit
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. girar em torno a algo, dar voltas em redor de algo ou alguém
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 orbitar
- orbito first-person present singular
- orbitei first-person preterite singular
- orbitado participle past
- orbitares infinitive second-person singular
- orbitarmos first-person infinitive plural
- orbitardes infinitive plural second-person
- orbitarem infinitive plural third-person
- orbitando gerund
- orbitados masculine participle past
- orbitada feminine participle past
- orbitadas feminine participle past
- orbitas indicative present second-person
- orbita indicative present singular
- orbitamos first-person indicative plural
- orbitais indicative plural present
- orbitam indicative plural present
- orbitava first-person imperfect indicative
- orbitavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce orbitar?
- Brazil /oʁ.biˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [oɦ.biˈta(h)]
- /oɾ.biˈta(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 orbitar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is orbitar in Portuguese?
orbitar appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).