accidentar

From accident +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ək.si.ðənˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ak.si.ðenˈtaɾ]

• Audio (Catalonia); “accidentar-se”:

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accidentar (first-person singular present accidento, first-person singular preterite accidentí, past participle accidentat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. (transitive) to create a geological feature
2. (reflexive) to have an accident

• “accidentar”, 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
• “accidentar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “accidentar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “accidentar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From accidente (“accident”) +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /aɡθidenˈtaɾ/ [aɣ̞.θi.ð̞ẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /aɡsidenˈtaɾ/ [aɣ̞.si.ð̞ẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ac‧ci‧den‧tar

accidentar (first-person singular present accidento, first-person singular preterite accidenté, past participle accidentado)

1. (transitive) to cause an accident
2. (reflexive) to have an accident, get into an accident, crash
   • 2015 August 1, “Mueren 11 soldados colombianos en un accidente de avión”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Una aeronave de la Fuerza Aérea colombiana se accidentó en el departamento de Cesar, al norte del país, con 11 militares a bordo que murieron en el accidente.

     A Colombian Air Force aircraft crashed in the Department of Cesar, in the north of the country, with 11 military personnel aboard who died in the accident.

• “accidentar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024