aceitar

From Old Galician-Portuguese aceitar, from Latin acceptō, acceptāre.

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: a‧cei‧tar

aceitar (first-person singular present aceito, first-person singular preterite aceitei, past participle aceitado)

1. alternative form of aceptar
2. reintegrationist spelling of aceptar

• aceitación, aceitábel

From Old Galician-Portuguese aceitar, from Latin acceptāre. The short past participle is directly from accipere, the source of acceptāre.

• Hyphenation: a‧cei‧tar

aceitar (first-person singular present aceito, first-person singular preterite aceitei, past participle aceitado, short past participle (Brazil) aceito or (Portugal) aceite)

1. to accept
   • 1908, Antonio de Albuquerque, O Marquez da Bacalhôa‎^[1], Brussels: Imprimérie Liberté, page 97:

     — Mas que havia elle de fazer, senão acceitar o offerecimento do marquez, visto não o deixarem voltar para o seu governo?

     “But what should he have done other than accept the marquess’s offering, seeing as they wouldn’t allow him back in his government?”

2. to receive

• “aceitar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

From aceite +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /aθeiˈtaɾ/ [a.θei̯ˈt̪aɾ] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /aseiˈtaɾ/ [a.sei̯ˈt̪aɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧cei‧tar

aceitar (first-person singular present aceito, first-person singular preterite aceité, past participle aceitado)

1. (transitive) to oil
2. (Latin America, transitive) to bribe

   Synonym: sobornar

• “aceitar”, 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