aterrar

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• IPA^(key): /ateˈra(ɾ)/
• Syllabification: a‧te‧rrar
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

aterrar

1. (intransitive) to land

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• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “aterrar”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

From a- +‎ terra (“land”) +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.təˈra]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.teˈraɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
• Hyphenation: a‧ter‧rar

aterrar (first-person singular present aterro, first-person singular preterite aterrí, past participle aterrat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/

1. (transitive) to knock down, pull down, bring down
2. (intransitive) to land (for example, of a plane, bird, projectile etc.)

• Hyphenation: a‧ter‧rar

From a- +‎ terra +‎ -ar.

aterrar (first-person singular present aterro, first-person singular preterite aterrei, past participle aterrado)

1. (intransitive) to land

   Synonym: pousar

2. (intransitive, nautical) to dock
3. (transitive) to fill or cover with earth
4. (transitive) to raise (a field) with earth or rubble
5. (transitive, electricity) to ground
6. (transitive, archaic) to knock down
7. (reflexive) to burrow (of an animal)
8. (reflexive) to fall down, to fall to earth

From Latin terrēre.

aterrar (first-person singular present aterro, first-person singular preterite aterrei, past participle aterrado)

1. to terrorize

   Synonym: aterrorizar

• “aterrar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “aterrar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

• IPA^(key): /ateˈraɾ/ [a.t̪eˈraɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧te‧rrar

From a- +‎ tierra (“land”) +‎ -ar.

aterrar (first-person singular present atierro, first-person singular preterite aterré, past participle aterrado)

1. (transitive) to bring down, to ground
2. to cover with earth, soil, sand, etc.
3. (intransitive) to land

   Synonym: aterrizar

• enterrar
• enlodar

From a- +‎ Latin terreō.

aterrar (first-person singular present aterro, first-person singular preterite aterré, past participle aterrado)

1. (transitive) to scare

   Synonyms: aterrorizar; see also Thesaurus:asustar

   • 2021, Anne Aguirre, Acordes entre cenizas [Chords among ashes], Roomie Ediciones:

     La luz es demasiado fuerte y la oscuridad me aterra.

     Light is too strong and darkness scares me.

• “aterrar”, 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