macerar

Borrowed from Latin macērāre (“to soften”). Doublet of maurar, an inherited form.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [mə.səˈɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ma.seˈɾaɾ]

macerar (first-person singular present macero, first-person singular preterite macerí, past participle macerat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. (transitive) to macerate (to soften in a liquid)

   Synonym: estovar

• maceració

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

Learned borrowing from Latin mācerāre (“to soften”).

macerar (first-person singular present macero, first-person singular preterite macerei, past participle macerado)

1. (transitive) to macerate (to soften in a liquid)

   Synonym: amolecer

2. (figuratively) to torture

• maceração

• “macerar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

From Latin macērāre.

• IPA^(key): /maθeˈɾaɾ/ [ma.θeˈɾaɾ] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /maseˈɾaɾ/ [ma.seˈɾaɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ma‧ce‧rar

macerar (first-person singular present macero, first-person singular preterite maceré, past participle macerado)

1. (transitive) to macerate (to soften in a liquid)

• “macerar”, 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