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revólver

Portuguese, noun

revólver is spelled R-E-V-Ó-L-V-E-R (8 letters) and appears 3.6 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 15,278th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Revólver is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “revolver (a handgun with revolving chambers)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, revolver is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “arma de fogo individual, manual e de repetição que possui um tambor giratório para carregar os cartuchos”.

What does revólver mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinerevolver (a handgun with revolving chambers)

verb

as revolver
  1. 1

    to turn over (e.g., earth)

  2. 2

    to roll (the eyes)

  3. 3

    to go through (e.g., archives)

noun

as revolver
  1. 1

    masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of revólver

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. mover(-se) 2. mexer(-se) para os lados, para frente e para trás etc. 3. remexer, escarafunchar, esgravatar 4. rebelar(-se)

noun: 1. arma de fogo individual, manual e de repetição que possui um tambor giratório para carregar os cartuchos

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 revólver

  • revolvo first-person present singular
  • revolvi first-person preterite singular
  • revolvido participle past
  • revolto participle past short-form
  • revolveres infinitive second-person singular
  • revolvermos first-person infinitive plural
  • revolverdes infinitive plural second-person
  • revolverem infinitive plural third-person
  • revolvendo gerund
  • revoltos masculine participle past
  • revolta feminine participle past
  • revoltas feminine participle past
  • revolvidos long-form masculine participle
  • revolvida feminine long-form participle
  • revolvidas feminine long-form participle
  • revolves indicative present second-person
  • revolve indicative present singular
  • revolvemos first-person indicative plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to revólver

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is revólver in Portuguese?

revólver appears 3.6 times per million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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