entardecer

== Portuguese == === Etymology === From en- +‎ tarde (“afternoon”, noun) +‎ -ecer. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: en‧tar‧de‧cer === Verb === entardecer (first-person singular present entardeço, first-person singular preterite entardeci, past participle entardecido) (impersonal, of the day) to become late or close to night (intransitive, figurative) to near its end; to be reaching its sunset (the final period of life) ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Related terms ==== anoitecer === Noun === entardecer m (plural entardeceres) sunset (the period before and after the sun disappears below the horizon) Saí de casa ao entardecer. ― I left home when the sun was setting. Vimos o entardecer no parque. ― We watched the sunset from the park. === Further reading === “entardecer”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “entardecer”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026