tiritar
Portuguese, verb/t͡ʃi.ɾiˈta(ʁ)/
tiritar is spelled T-I-R-I-T-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 98 million words in written Portuguese, the 266,412th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tiritar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to shiver (to shake when cold or frightened)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tremer de frio ou medo”.
What does tiritar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to shiver (to shake when cold or frightened)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tremer de frio ou medo
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 tiritar
- tirito first-person present singular
- tiritei first-person preterite singular
- tiritado participle past
- tiritares infinitive second-person singular
- tiritarmos first-person infinitive plural
- tiritardes infinitive plural second-person
- tiritarem infinitive plural third-person
- tiritando gerund
- tiritados masculine participle past
- tiritada feminine participle past
- tiritadas feminine participle past
- tiritas indicative present second-person
- tirita indicative present singular
- tiritamos first-person indicative plural
- tiritais indicative plural present
- tiritam indicative plural present
- tiritava first-person imperfect indicative
- tiritavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tiritar?
- Brazil /t͡ʃi.ɾiˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [t͡ʃi.ɾiˈta(h)]
- /t͡ʃi.ɾiˈta(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 tiritar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tiritar in Portuguese?
tiritar appears about once in every 98 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).