reacender
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- reaccender (pre-standardization spelling)
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ʁe.a.sẽˈde(ʁ)/ [he.a.sẽˈde(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ʁe.a.sẽˈde(ɾ)/ [he.a.sẽˈde(ɾ)]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ʁe.a.sẽˈde(ʁ)/ [χe.a.sẽˈde(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ʁe.a.sẽˈde(ɻ)/ [he.a.sẽˈde(ɻ)]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ʁjɐ.sẽˈdeɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ʁjɐ.sẽˈde.ɾi/
- Hyphenation: re‧a‧cen‧der
Verb
reacender (first-person singular present reacendo, first-person singular preterite reacendi, past participle reacendido)
- (transitive) to relight (ignite again)
- 1938, Graciliano Ramos, “Fabiano”, in Vidas Seccas [Barren Lives], Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, page 31:
- Coçou o queixo cabelludo, parou, reaccendeu o cigarro.
- He scratched his hairy chin, stopped, relit his cigarette.
- (intransitive) to become relit (ignite again)
- (transitive, figurative) to rekindle, to revive (to recover from a state of oblivion or neglect)
- (reflexive, figurative) to become rekindled
Conjugation
Conjugation of reacender (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
Further reading
- “reacender”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
- “reacender”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “reacender”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
- “reacender”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025