acontecer
Galician[edit]
Verb[edit]
acontecer
- to happen
Conjugation[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “acontecer” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Portuguese acontecer, from a- + contecer, from Vulgar Latin *contingēscō, *contingēscere, inchoative of Latin contingō (“to touch; to arrive at”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.kõ.tɨ.ˈseɾ/ [ɐ.kõ.tɯ̽.ˈseɾ]
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.kõ.te.ˈse(ʁ)/, [ɐ.ˌkõ̞ʊ̯̃ⁿ.t̪ë.ˈs̻e(χ)]
- Hyphenation: a‧con‧te‧cer
Verb[edit]
acontecer (first-person singular present indicative aconteço, past participle acontecido)
- (impersonal, transitive) to happen; to occur; to take place
- (informal) to become famous or successful
Conjugation[edit]
Quotations[edit]
For quotations using this term, see Citations:acontecer.
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- acontecer in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
Spanish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- contecer (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
From a- + contecer, from Vulgar Latin *contingēscō, *contingēscere, inchoative of Latin contingō (“to touch; to arrive at”). Alternatively, Corominas proposes derivation from Old Spanish contir, from Vulgar Latin *contigō, *contigere, from the same Latin root. Related to English contact.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Castilian) IPA(key): /akonteˈθeɾ/, [akõn̪t̪eˈθeɾ]
- (Latin America) IPA(key): /akonteˈseɾ/, [akõn̪t̪eˈseɾ]
Noun[edit]
acontecer m (plural aconteceres)
Verb[edit]
acontecer (first-person singular present acontezco, first-person singular preterite acontecí, past participle acontecido)
- (impersonal, literary) to come to pass, to happen, to occur, to transpire, to come about, to befall
Conjugation[edit]
- Rule: c becomes a zc before a or o.
- 1 Mostly obsolete form, now mainly used in legal jargon.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “acontecer” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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