accentuar

accentuar

1. to accent (to mark with written accents)

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin accentuāre, from Latin accentus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ək.sən.tuˈa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ak.sen.tuˈaɾ]

accentuar (first-person singular present accentuo, first-person singular preterite accentuí, past participle accentuat)

1. to accentuate (to pronounce with vocal stress)
2. to accentuate (to mark with written accents)
3. to accentuate, emphasize

• accent
• accentuació
• inaccentuat

• “accentuar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “accentuar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “accentuar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “accentuar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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accentuar

1. to accentuate

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• accent
• accentuacion

accentuar (first-person singular present accentuo, first-person singular preterite accentuei, past participle accentuado)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of acentuar.
   • 1880, Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “A morte de Bertha [Bertha’s death]”, in Contos e phantasias [Short stories and fantasies]‎^[1], 2nd edition, Lisbon: Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira, published 1905, page 225:

     N’aquella physionomia accentuada e trigueira o sorriso era tão doce que lembrava o desabrochar de um lyrio.

     In that sharp and olive-toned semblance, the smile was so sweet that it resembled the blooming of a lily.