comenzar

Inherited from Old Navarro-Aragonese començar, from Vulgar Latin *cominitiāre, from com- + Latin initiāre.

• IPA^(key): /komenˈθa(ɾ)/
• IPA^(key): /komenˈsa(ɾ)/ (Benasquese)
• Syllabification: co‧men‧zar
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

comenzar

1. to begin, to commence

   Synonyms: principiar, emprincipiar, prencipiar, emprencipiar, iniciar

   Me voi sentar en el chardín, y voi comenzar a leyer un libro prou interesant.

   I sat (on a chair, bench) in the garden, and I started to read a very interesting book.

   Ya podez comenzar.

   You may commence.

• escomenzar

• Diccionario ortografico de l'aragonés (Seguntes la PO de l'EFA)

From Vulgar Latin *cominitiāre.

comenzar (first-person singular indicative present comienzo, past participle comenzáu)

1. to begin, start

   Synonyms: entamar, apenzar, empecipiar, emprimar, aniciar, empezar

• comienzu

comenzar (first-person singular present comenzo, first-person singular preterite comencei, past participle comenzado)

1. alternative form of comezar

Inherited from Old Spanish començar, from Vulgar Latin *cominitiāre, from com- + Latin initiāre. Did not show diphthongized conjugations in early medieval texts; their later appearance seems to reflect analogy with the synonym empezar.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /komenˈθaɾ/ [ko.mẽn̟ˈθaɾ] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /komenˈsaɾ/ [ko.mẽnˈsaɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: co‧men‧zar

comenzar (first-person singular present comienzo, first-person singular preterite comencé, past participle comenzado)

1. to begin, to commence

   Synonym: empezar

   Yo me senté sobre un banco en el jardín, y comencé a leer un libro interesante.

   I sat on a bench in the garden, and I started to read an interesting book.

   Usted puede comenzar.

   You may commence.

• Papiamentu: kuminsá

• “comenzar”, 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