peitar
Portuguese, verb/pejˈta(ʁ)/
peitar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to stand up to someone” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “subornar com peitas”.
What does peitar mean in English?
verb
- 1
Brazilcolloquialto stand up to someone
verb
- 1
Portugalto bribe
- 2
to pay the peita (a tribute paid by those who were not nobles)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. subornar com peitas
verb: 1. enfrentar uma situação com coragem
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 peitar
- peito first-person present singular
- peitei first-person preterite singular
- peitado participle past
- peitares infinitive second-person singular
- peitarmos first-person infinitive plural
- peitardes infinitive plural second-person
- peitarem infinitive plural third-person
- peitando gerund
- peitados masculine participle past
- peitada feminine participle past
- peitadas feminine participle past
- peitas indicative present second-person
- peita indicative present singular
- peitamos first-person indicative plural
- peitais indicative plural present
- peitam indicative plural present
- peitava first-person imperfect indicative
- peitavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce peitar?
- Brazil /pejˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [peɪ̯ˈta(h)]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is peitar in Portuguese?
peitar 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).