assentar

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.sənˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.senˈtaɾ]

assentar (first-person singular present assento, first-person singular preterite assentí, past participle assentat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. to settle, to set up

• assentament

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

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese assentar, asentar, from Vulgar Latin *adsedentāre, from Latin ad + sedentāre, or constructed in Old Portuguese as a- +‎ sentar (“to sit”).

assentar (first-person singular present assento, first-person singular preterite assentei, past participle assentado, short past participle assente)

1. to seat
2. to register
3. to settle; to determine; to decide

In Brazil, the verb may be treated as having a regular past participle; speakers might use assentado in all cases. This is considered nonstandard, however.