acentuar

• accentuar (pre-standardization spelling)

• Hyphenation: a‧cen‧tu‧ar

acentuar (first-person singular present acentuo, first-person singular preterite acentuei, past participle acentuado)(transitive)

1. to accentuate; to stress (to pronounce with an accent or vocal stress)
2. to accentuate (to bring out distinctly; to emphasize)

   Synonyms: destacar, enfatizar

   • 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.

3. (linguistics) to accentuate (to mark with a written accent)

• “acentuar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “acentuar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “acentuar”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2025
• “acentuar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “acentuar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “acentuar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “acentuar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

Borrowed from Medieval Latin accentuāre.

• IPA^(key): /aθenˈtwaɾ/ [a.θẽn̪ˈt̪waɾ] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /asenˈtwaɾ/ [a.sẽn̪ˈt̪waɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧cen‧tuar

acentuar (first-person singular present acentúo, first-person singular preterite acentué, past participle acentuado)

1. (transitive) to accentuate (to pronounce with vocal stress)
   • 2015, Esther Herrera Zendejas, Tono, acentos y estructuras métricas en lenguas mexicanas., El Colegio de Mexico AC, →ISBN:

     Sin embargo, es muy notorio en esta lengua la reducción de vocales no acentuadas, muchas de las cuales desaparecen por completo, tanto en posición media como en posición final de palabra.

     However, the reduction of unstressed vowels in this language is very notorious; many of them disappear completely in the mid-word as well as the word-final position.

2. (transitive) to accentuate (to mark with a written accent)
   • 2012, Pedro Manuel Jiménez de Urrea, Cancionero, Universidad de Zaragoza →ISBN

     Acentuamos la forma tónica del pronombre nós para distinguirla de la forma átona […]

     We accentuate the tonic form of the pronoun nós to distinguish it from the atonic form […]

   Synonym: tildar

3. (transitive) to accentuate, to emphasize
   • 1995, Carlos Alberto Torres, La política de la educación no formal en América Latina, Siglo XXI, →ISBN, page 14:

     Pero aún más importante es que la distribución desigual del consumo en las sociedades condicionadas acentúa la importancia de ese símbolo.

     But even more important is that the unequal distribution of consumption in conditioned societies accentuates the importance of that symbol.

   Synonyms: destacar, enfatizar, recalcar, subrayar

• “acentuar”, 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