vilipendiar
Portuguese, verb/vi.li.pẽ.d͡ʒiˈa(ʁ)/
vilipendiar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to vilify (say defamatory things about someone or something)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “desprezar, repelir”.
What does vilipendiar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to vilify (say defamatory things about someone or something)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. desprezar, repelir
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 vilipendiar
- vilipendio first-person present singular
- vilipendiei first-person preterite singular
- vilipendiado participle past
- vilipendiares infinitive second-person singular
- vilipendiarmos first-person infinitive plural
- vilipendiardes infinitive plural second-person
- vilipendiarem infinitive plural third-person
- vilipendiando gerund
- vilipendiados masculine participle past
- vilipendiada feminine participle past
- vilipendiadas feminine participle past
- vilipendias indicative present second-person
- vilipendia indicative present singular
- vilipendiamos first-person indicative plural
- vilipendiais indicative plural present
- vilipendiam indicative plural present
- vilipendiava first-person imperfect indicative
- vilipendiavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vilipendiar?
- Brazil /vi.li.pẽ.d͡ʒiˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [vi.li.pẽ.d͡ʒiˈa(h)]
- Brazil /vi.li.pẽˈd͡ʒja(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 vilipendiar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vilipendiar in Portuguese?
vilipendiar appears about once in every 55 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).