acelerado
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.se.leˈɾa.du/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /a.se.leˈɾa.do/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.sɨ.lɨˈɾa.du/ [ɐ.sɨ.lɨˈɾa.ðu]
- Hyphenation: a‧ce‧le‧ra‧do
Adjective
acelerado (feminine acelerada, masculine plural acelerados, feminine plural aceleradas, comparable, comparative mais acelerado, superlative o mais acelerado or aceleradíssimo)
- accelerated
- fast, quick, rapid
- 2003, J. K. Rowling, Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix, Rocco, page 434:
- O coração de Harry batia acelerado agora.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Participle
acelerado (feminine acelerada, masculine plural acelerados, feminine plural aceleradas)
- past participle of acelerar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aθeleˈɾado/ [a.θe.leˈɾa.ð̞o] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /aseleˈɾado/ [a.se.leˈɾa.ð̞o] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -ado
- Syllabification: a‧ce‧le‧ra‧do
Adjective
acelerado (feminine acelerada, masculine plural acelerados, feminine plural aceleradas)
- accelerated
- (slang) very excited; wound up; hyper
- (colloquial, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina) half-drunk
Derived terms
Participle
acelerado (feminine acelerada, masculine plural acelerados, feminine plural aceleradas)
- past participle of acelerar
Further reading
- “acelerado”, 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
- “acelerado”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010