sitiar
Portuguese, verb/si.t͡ʃiˈa(ʁ)/
sitiar is spelled S-I-T-I-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written Portuguese, the 131,183rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sitiar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to besiege (to surround with troops)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fazer sítio, cerco; cercar uma cidade durante uma guerra com o objetivo de fazê-la se render”.
What does sitiar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to besiege (to surround with troops)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fazer sítio, cerco; cercar uma cidade durante uma guerra com o objetivo de fazê-la se render
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 sitiar
- sitio first-person present singular
- sitiei first-person preterite singular
- sitiado participle past
- sitiares infinitive second-person singular
- sitiarmos first-person infinitive plural
- sitiardes infinitive plural second-person
- sitiarem infinitive plural third-person
- sitiando gerund
- sitiados masculine participle past
- sitiada feminine participle past
- sitiadas feminine participle past
- sitias indicative present second-person
- sitia indicative present singular
- sitiamos first-person indicative plural
- sitiais indicative plural present
- sitiam indicative plural present
- sitiava first-person imperfect indicative
- sitiavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sitiar?
- Brazil /si.t͡ʃiˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [si.t͡ʃiˈa(h)]
- Brazil /siˈt͡ʃja(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 sitiar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sitiar in Portuguese?
sitiar appears about once in every 19 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).