acentuar

== Portuguese == === Alternative forms === accentuar (pre-standardization spelling) === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: a‧cen‧tu‧ar === Verb === acentuar (first-person singular present acentuo, first-person singular preterite acentuei, past participle acentuado)(transitive) to accentuate; to stress (to pronounce with an accent or vocal stress) to accentuate (to bring out distinctly; to emphasize) Synonyms: destacar, enfatizar (linguistics) to accentuate (to mark with a written accent) ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Related terms ==== === References === “acentuar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913 “acentuar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “acentuar”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2026 “acentuar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 “acentuar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026 “acentuar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2026 “acentuar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN == Spanish == === Etymology === Borrowed from Medieval Latin accentuāre. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /aθenˈtwaɾ/ [a.θẽn̪ˈt̪waɾ] (Spain) IPA(key): /asenˈtwaɾ/ [a.sẽn̪ˈt̪waɾ] (Latin America, Philippines) Rhymes: -aɾ Syllabification: a‧cen‧tuar === Verb === acentuar (first-person singular present acentúo, first-person singular preterite acentué, past participle acentuado) (transitive) to accentuate (to pronounce with vocal stress) (transitive) to accentuate (to mark with a written accent) 2012, Pedro Manuel Jiménez de Urrea, Cancionero, Universidad de Zaragoza →ISBN Synonym: tildar (transitive) to accentuate, to emphasize Synonyms: destacar, enfatizar, recalcar, subrayar ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Further reading ==== “acentuar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025