acalmar
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Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From a- + calmo (“calm”) + -ar.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: a‧cal‧mar
Verb
[edit]acalmar (first-person singular present acalmo, first-person singular preterite acalmei, past participle acalmado)
- (transitive) to calm; to calm down (to make calm)
- Acalme seus filhos, senão expulso vocês da loja.
- Calm your children down or I will throw you out of the store.
- 1971, Jards Macalé, Duda Machado, “Hotel das Estrelas”, in Legal, performed by Gal Costa, PolyGram:
- Dessa janela, sozinha / Olhar a cidade me acalma
- Alone, from this windowsill / Looking at the city puts me at ease
- (pronominal) to calm down (to become calm)
- Tomei um chá para me acalmar. ― I drank some tea in order to calm down.
- (intransitive or pronominal) to calm down (to become less agitated)
- O barulho das folhas acalmou. ― The noise of the leaves calmed down.
- Depois da tempestade, o mar se acalmou. ― After the storm, the sea calmed down.
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of acalmar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “acalmar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “acalmar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]acalmar (first-person singular present acalmo, first-person singular preterite acalmé, past participle acalmado)
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of acalmar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Further reading
[edit]- “acalmar”, 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
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