personificar
Portuguese, verb/peʁ.so.ni.fiˈka(ʁ)/
personificar is spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-I-F-I-C-A-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese, the 70,152nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Personificar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to embody; to personify (have all the attributes of)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “atribuir característica de pessoas a animais, objetos, deuses, etc”.
What does personificar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to embody; to personify (have all the attributes of)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. atribuir característica de pessoas a animais, objetos, deuses, etc 2. dar vida a
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 personificar
- personifico first-person present singular
- personifiquei first-person preterite singular
- personificado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- personificares infinitive second-person singular
- personificarmos first-person infinitive plural
- personificardes infinitive plural second-person
- personificarem infinitive plural third-person
- personificando gerund
- personificados masculine participle past
- personificada feminine participle past
- personificadas feminine participle past
- personificas indicative present second-person
- personifica indicative present singular
- personificamos first-person indicative plural
- personificais indicative plural present
- personificam indicative plural present
- personificava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce personificar?
- Brazil /peʁ.so.ni.fiˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [peh.so.ni.fiˈka(h)]
- /peɾ.so.ni.fiˈka(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 personificar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is personificar in Portuguese?
personificar appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).