despontar

== Portuguese == === Etymology === From des- + ponta (“tip, point”) + -ar. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: des‧pon‧tar === Verb === despontar (first-person singular present desponto, first-person singular preterite despontei, past participle despontado) (intransitive) to emerge; to come out Synonyms: apontar, surgir (intransitive, botany) to sprout Synonyms: apontar, brotar (transitive) to trim (transitive) to blunt ==== Conjugation ==== === Noun === despontar m (plural despontares) beginning Synonym: início ao despontar do dia ― at daybreak === Further reading === “despontar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “despontar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026