potenciar
Portuguese, verb/po.tẽ.siˈa(ʁ)/
potenciar is a Portuguese verb meaning “raise a number to an exponent” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “elevar um número a qualquer expoente”.
What does potenciar mean in English?
verb
- 1
raise a number to an exponent
- 2
symbolize the power of a number, given the exponent
- 3
promote the development or effectiveness of; intensify; potentialize; reinforce
- 4
make a medicine more effective by the action of another substance
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. elevar um número a qualquer expoente 2. aumentar, intensificar
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 potenciar
- potencio first-person present singular
- potenciei first-person preterite singular
- potenciado participle past
- potenciares infinitive second-person singular
- potenciarmos first-person infinitive plural
- potenciardes infinitive plural second-person
- potenciarem infinitive plural third-person
- potenciando gerund
- potenciados masculine participle past
- potenciada feminine participle past
- potenciadas feminine participle past
- potencias indicative present second-person
- potencia indicative present singular
- potenciamos first-person indicative plural
- potenciais indicative plural present
- potenciam indicative plural present
- potenciava first-person imperfect indicative
- potenciavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce potenciar?
- Brazil /po.tẽ.siˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [po.tẽ.siˈa(h)]
- Brazil /po.tẽˈsja(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is potenciar in Portuguese?
potenciar 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).