embasar
التعريفات والمعاني
== Portuguese ==
=== Etymology ===
From em- + base (“base; basis”) + -ar.
=== Pronunciation ===
Hyphenation: em‧ba‧sar
=== Verb ===
embasar (first-person singular present embaso, first-person singular preterite embasei, past participle embasado)
(transitive, architecture) to build (a building’s) foundation
(transitive) to base [with direct object ‘an opinion, idea, procedure, etc.’ and em ‘on someone/something’]
Ele embasou a teoria nas suas observações. ― He based the theory on his observations.
==== Conjugation ====
==== Derived terms ====
base
embasado
embasamento
=== Further reading ===
“embasar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
“embasar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
== Spanish ==
=== Verb ===
embasar
only used in se ... embasar, syntactic variant of embasarse