acidente

== Portuguese == === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ẽti Hyphenation: a‧ci‧den‧te === Etymology 1 === Learned borrowing from Latin accidentem, present active participle of accidō (“happen”); from ad (“to”) + cadō (“fall”); respectively from Proto-Indo-European *ád (“near, at”) and *ḱad- (“to fall”). ==== Noun ==== acidente m (plural acidentes) accident (unexpected event with negative consequences) Synonyms: catástrofe, desastre (geology) accident (irregular surface) ===== Derived terms ===== === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Verb ==== acidente inflection of acidentar: first/third-person singular present subjunctive third-person singular imperative === Further reading === “acidente”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “acidente”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026