trucidar
Portuguese, verb/tɾu.siˈda(ʁ)/
trucidar is spelled T-R-U-C-I-D-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written Portuguese, the 128,503rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Trucidar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to slaughter; to butcher (kill brutally)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “matar cruelmente; chacinar”.
What does trucidar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to slaughter; to butcher (kill brutally)
- 2
informalto destroy (defeat soundly)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. matar cruelmente; chacinar
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 trucidar
- trucido first-person present singular
- trucidei first-person preterite singular
- trucidado participle past
- trucidares infinitive second-person singular
- trucidarmos first-person infinitive plural
- trucidardes infinitive plural second-person
- trucidarem infinitive plural third-person
- trucidando gerund
- trucidados masculine participle past
- trucidada feminine participle past
- trucidadas feminine participle past
- trucidas indicative present second-person
- trucida indicative present singular
- trucidamos first-person indicative plural
- trucidais indicative plural present
- trucidam indicative plural present
- trucidava first-person imperfect indicative
- trucidavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce trucidar?
- Brazil /tɾu.siˈda(ʁ)/
- Brazil [tɾu.siˈda(h)]
- /tɾu.siˈda(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is trucidar in Portuguese?
trucidar 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).