enmendar

Portuguese

Verb

enmendar (first-person singular present enmendo, first-person singular preterite enmendei, past participle enmendado)

  1. obsolete form of emendar

Conjugation

Spanish

Alternative forms

Etymology

An early borrowing from Latin ēmendāre.[1] Reformulated after the common prefix en-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /emmenˈdaɾ/ [ẽm.mẽn̪ˈd̪aɾ]
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Syllabification: en‧men‧dar

Verb

enmendar (first-person singular present enmiendo, first-person singular preterite enmendé, past participle enmendado)

  1. to correct
    Synonym: corregir
    • 2020 July 29, “Aguado enmienda a Ayuso y anuncia que la ‘cartilla covid-19’ será solo un registro”, in El País[1]:
      El vicepresidente de la región, Ignacio Aguado, (Cs) ha enmendado así las palabras de la jefa del Ejecutivo autonómico: []
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. to amend

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References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “enmendar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

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