entumecer

== Spanish == === Alternative forms === entomecer (nonstandard) entormecer, atormecer, atomecer (crossed with adormecer) === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin intumēscere. According to Coromines & Pascual, first attested in Baltasar Gracián (17th century). The verb was partly affected by the inherited verb adormecer, producing some of the alternative forms shown above. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /entumeˈθeɾ/ [ẽn̪.t̪u.meˈθeɾ] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain) IPA(key): /entumeˈseɾ/ [ẽn̪.t̪u.meˈseɾ] (Latin America, Philippines) Rhymes: -eɾ Syllabification: en‧tu‧me‧cer === Verb === entumecer (first-person singular present entumezco, first-person singular preterite entumecí, past participle entumecido) (transitive) to numb (reflexive) to go numb ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “entumecer”, 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 Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1983), “tumor”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎[1] (in Spanish), volume V (Ri–X), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 693