prospectar

• prospetar (Portugal)

prospectar (first-person singular present prospecto, first-person singular preterite prospectei, past participle prospectado) (Brazilian Portuguese spelling, superseded in European Portuguese)

1. (geology, mining) to prospect (to determine which minerals or metals are present in a location)
2. (by extension) to prospect (to evaluate the potentials of something)

• IPA^(key): /pɾospeɡˈtaɾ/ [pɾos.peɣ̞ˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: pros‧pec‧tar

prospectar (first-person singular present prospecto, first-person singular preterite prospecté, past participle prospectado)

1. to prospect

• “prospectar”, 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