receitar
Portuguese, verb/ʁe.sejˈta(ʁ)/
receitar is spelled R-E-C-E-I-T-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 55,453rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Receitar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to prescribe” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “passar uma receita”.
What does receitar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to prescribe
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. passar uma receita 2. aconselhar um medicamento 3. prescrever
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 receitar
- receito first-person present singular
- receitei first-person preterite singular
- receitado participle past
- receitares infinitive second-person singular
- receitarmos first-person infinitive plural
- receitardes infinitive plural second-person
- receitarem infinitive plural third-person
- receitando gerund
- receitados masculine participle past
- receitada feminine participle past
- receitadas feminine participle past
- receitas indicative present second-person
- receita indicative present singular
- receitamos first-person indicative plural
- receitais indicative plural present
- receitam indicative plural present
- receitava first-person imperfect indicative
- receitavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce receitar?
- Brazil /ʁe.sejˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [he.seɪ̯ˈta(h)]
- Portugal /Rɨ.sɐj.ˈtaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to receitar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is receitar in Portuguese?
receitar appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).