parasitar
Portuguese, verb/pa.ɾa.ziˈta(ʁ)/
parasitar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to parasitize (live in a host organism)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ter parasitas”.
What does parasitar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to parasitize (live in a host organism)
- 2
to parasitize (take advantage of someone else)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ter parasitas 2. agir como parasita
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 parasitar
- parasito first-person present singular
- parasitei first-person preterite singular
- parasitado participle past
- parasitares infinitive second-person singular
- parasitarmos first-person infinitive plural
- parasitardes infinitive plural second-person
- parasitarem infinitive plural third-person
- parasitando gerund
- parasitados masculine participle past
- parasitada feminine participle past
- parasitadas feminine participle past
- parasitas indicative present second-person
- parasita indicative present singular
- parasitamos first-person indicative plural
- parasitais indicative plural present
- parasitam indicative plural present
- parasitava first-person imperfect indicative
- parasitavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce parasitar?
- Brazil /pa.ɾa.ziˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [pa.ɾa.ziˈta(h)]
- /pa.ɾa.ziˈta(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 parasitar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is parasitar in Portuguese?
parasitar appears about once in every 20 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).