refratar
Portuguese, verb/ʁe.fɾaˈta(ʁ)/
refratar is spelled R-E-F-R-A-T-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 45 million words in written Portuguese, the 189,447th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Refratar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to refract” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “alterar a direção de um raio luminoso, quando este passa de um meio a outro”.
What does refratar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to refract
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. alterar a direção de um raio luminoso, quando este passa de um meio a outro
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 refratar
- refrato first-person present singular
- refratei first-person preterite singular
- refratado participle past
- refratares infinitive second-person singular
- refratarmos first-person infinitive plural
- refratardes infinitive plural second-person
- refratarem infinitive plural third-person
- refratando gerund
- refratados masculine participle past
- refratada feminine participle past
- refratadas feminine participle past
- refratas indicative present second-person
- refrata indicative present singular
- refratamos first-person indicative plural
- refratais indicative plural present
- refratam indicative plural present
- refratava first-person imperfect indicative
- refratavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce refratar?
- Brazil /ʁe.fɾaˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [he.fɾaˈta(h)]
- /ʁe.fɾaˈta(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 refratar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is refratar in Portuguese?
refratar appears about once in every 45 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).