pasteurizar
Portuguese, verb/pas.tew.ɾiˈza(ʁ)/
pasteurizar is spelled P-A-S-T-E-U-R-I-Z-A-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 76 million words in written Portuguese, the 239,085th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pasteurizar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to pasteurize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “técnica de esterilização do leite e derivados, que consiste em aquecê-lo a cerca de setenta graus Celsius e…”.
What does pasteurizar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pasteurize
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. técnica de esterilização do leite e derivados, que consiste em aquecê-lo a cerca de setenta graus Celsius e, em seguida, resfriá-lo muito rapidamente
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 pasteurizar
- pasteurizo first-person present singular
- pasteurizei first-person preterite singular
- pasteurizado participle past
- pasteurizares infinitive second-person singular
- pasteurizarmos first-person infinitive plural
- pasteurizardes infinitive plural second-person
- pasteurizarem infinitive plural third-person
- pasteurizando gerund
- pasteurizados masculine participle past
- pasteurizada feminine participle past
- pasteurizadas feminine participle past
- pasteurizas indicative present second-person
- pasteuriza indicative present singular
- pasteurizamos first-person indicative plural
- pasteurizais indicative plural present
- pasteurizam indicative plural present
- pasteurizava first-person imperfect indicative
- pasteurizavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pasteurizar?
- Brazil /pas.tew.ɾiˈza(ʁ)/
- Brazil [pas.teʊ̯.ɾiˈza(h)]
- /pas.tew.ɾiˈza(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 pasteurizar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pasteurizar in Portuguese?
pasteurizar appears about once in every 76 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).