tranquilizar
Portuguese, verb
tranquilizar is spelled T-R-A-N-Q-U-I-L-I-Z-A-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 39,050th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tranquilizar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to tranquilise; to calm down (cause to become less excited, intense or angry)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a diaeresis, tranqüilizar is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1990 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal)…”. With an accent, tranqùilizar is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1920) of tranquilizar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pôr tranquilo”.
What does tranquilizar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to tranquilise; to calm down (cause to become less excited, intense or angry)
- 2
to tranquilise (to use a drug to sedate a person or animal)
verb
- 1
pre-reform spelling (used until 1990 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of tranquilizar; may still occur as a sporadic misspelling
verb
- 1
pre-reform spelling (used until 1920) of tranquilizar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. pôr tranquilo
verb: 1. vide tranquilizar
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 tranquilizar
- tranquilizo first-person present singular
- tranquilizei first-person preterite singular
- tranquilizado participle past
- tranquilizares infinitive second-person singular
- tranquilizarmos first-person infinitive plural
- tranquilizardes infinitive plural second-person
- tranquilizarem infinitive plural third-person
- tranquilizando gerund
- tranquilizados masculine participle past
- tranquilizada feminine participle past
- tranquilizadas feminine participle past
- tranquilizas indicative present second-person
- tranquiliza indicative present singular
- tranquilizamos first-person indicative plural
- tranquilizais indicative plural present
- tranquilizam indicative plural present
- tranquilizava first-person imperfect indicative
- tranquilizavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to tranquilizar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tranquilizar in Portuguese?
tranquilizar appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).