acelerar
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Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin accelerāre. By surface analysis, a- + célere + -ar.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: a‧ce‧le‧rar
Verb
[edit]acelerar (first-person singular present acelero, first-person singular preterite acelerei, past participle acelerado)
- (transitive, intransitive) to accelerate (to increase speed or acquire speed, become swift)
- (reflexive) to hurry up
- (transitive) to advance
- (transitive) to shorten (to reduce the time of)
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of acelerar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “acelerar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “acelerar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
- “acelerar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin accelerāre (“to hasten, to accelerate”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /aθeleˈɾaɾ/ [a.θe.leˈɾaɾ] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
- IPA(key): /aseleˈɾaɾ/ [a.se.leˈɾaɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: a‧ce‧le‧rar
Verb
[edit]acelerar (first-person singular present acelero, first-person singular preterite aceleré, past participle acelerado)
- (transitive, reflexive) to accelerate (to cause to move faster)
- Antonym: desacelerar
- 2025 May 12, Manuel Viejo, quoting Isabel Díaz Ayuso, “Ayuso, sobre el Congreso del PP que se celebrará en julio: “En el momento en el que hay runrún, conviene””, in El País[1], Madrid: Ediciones El País, S.L., →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 May 2025:
- “En el momento en el que hay runrún conviene, pero solo le compete a la dirección nacional. Ahora que ha empezado el runrún sí que hay que acelerarlo porque si no, al final, pues opina aquí todo el mundo menos los protagonistas. Estaremos a la altura”.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (intransitive) to hurry up
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of acelerar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of acelerar
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “acelerar”, 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
- “acelerar”, in Tesoro de los diccionarios históricos de la lengua española [Thesaurus of the Historical Dictionaries of the Spanish Language], Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], launched 2021
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