amortizar

== Portuguese == === Etymology === Ultimately from Vulgar Latin *admortīre, from Latin ad + mortem. Compare Spanish amortizar, Italian ammorzare, English amortize. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: a‧mor‧ti‧zar === Verb === amortizar (first-person singular present amortizo, first-person singular preterite amortizei, past participle amortizado) to amortize to pay in installments (debt) to write off, to redeem A empresa amortizou os empréstimos dos clientes que não pagavam. ― The company wrote off loans to clients that were not paying. O nosso banco amortizou as obrigações emitidas durante a pandemia. ― Our bank redeemed the bonds issued during the pandemic. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== amortização amortizável === Further reading === “amortizar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “amortizar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == Spanish == === Etymology === From (the stem of) Middle French amortir (“to bring to death”), probably from Vulgar Latin *admortīre, from Latin ad + mortem. And -izar. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /amoɾtiˈθaɾ/ [a.moɾ.t̪iˈθaɾ] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain) IPA(key): /amoɾtiˈsaɾ/ [a.moɾ.t̪iˈsaɾ] (Latin America, Philippines) Rhymes: -aɾ Syllabification: a‧mor‧ti‧zar === Verb === amortizar (first-person singular present amortizo, first-person singular preterite amorticé, past participle amortizado) to amortize ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “amortizar”, 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