sentenciar
Portuguese, verb/sẽ.tẽ.siˈa(ʁ)/
sentenciar is spelled S-E-N-T-E-N-C-I-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 62,059th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sentenciar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to sentence” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “decidir por meio de sentença”.
What does sentenciar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sentence
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. decidir por meio de sentença 2. julgar 3. condenar por meio de sentença 4. pronunciar sentença
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 sentenciar
- sentencio first-person present singular
- sentenciei first-person preterite singular
- sentenciado participle past
- sentenciares infinitive second-person singular
- sentenciarmos first-person infinitive plural
- sentenciardes infinitive plural second-person
- sentenciarem infinitive plural third-person
- sentenciando gerund
- sentenciados masculine participle past
- sentenciada feminine participle past
- sentenciadas feminine participle past
- sentencias indicative present second-person
- sentencia indicative present singular
- sentenciamos first-person indicative plural
- sentenciais indicative plural present
- sentenciam indicative plural present
- sentenciava first-person imperfect indicative
- sentenciavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sentenciar?
- Brazil /sẽ.tẽ.siˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [sẽ.tẽ.siˈa(h)]
- Brazil /sẽ.tẽˈsja(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sentenciar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sentenciar in Portuguese?
sentenciar appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).