avançar

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *abanteāre (move forward), from Late Latin ab ante, from Latin ab + ante.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [ə.βənˈsa]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic) [ə.vənˈsa]
  • IPA(key): (Valencia) [a.vanˈsaɾ]
  • Homophones: avançà, avençà, avençar
  • Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

Verb

avançar (first-person singular present avanço, first-person singular preterite avancí, past participle avançat)

  1. to advance

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Galician

Verb

avançar (first-person singular present avanço, first-person singular preterite avancei, past participle avançado, reintegrationist norm)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of avanzar

Conjugation

References

  • avançar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Portuguese

Etymology

From Catalan avançar, from Vulgar Latin *abanteāre (to move forward), from Late Latin ab ante, from Latin ab + ante.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.vɐ̃ˈsa(ʁ)/ [a.vɐ̃ˈsa(h)]
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /a.vɐ̃ˈsa(ɾ)/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /a.vɐ̃ˈsa(ʁ)/ [a.vɐ̃ˈsa(χ)]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /a.vɐ̃ˈsa(ɻ)/
 
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.vɐ̃ˈsaɾ/
    • (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.bɐ̃ˈsaɾ/ [ɐ.βɐ̃ˈsaɾ]
    • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.vɐ̃ˈsa.ɾi/

Verb

avançar (first-person singular present avanço, first-person singular preterite avancei, past participle avançado)

  1. (intransitive) to go forward, advance
  2. (transitive) to surpass, exceed
  3. (transitive, of animals) to attack [with em]
    Estava andando pela praça e de repente um cachorro avançou em mim
    I was walking through the square and suddenly a dog attacked me.

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