acuminado

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin acūminātus.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.ku.miˈna.du/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.ku.miˈna.du/ [ɐ.ku.miˈna.ðu]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.ku.miˈna.du/ [ɐ.ku.miˈna.ðu]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.ku.miˈna.du/

• Hyphenation: a‧cu‧mi‧na‧do

Adjective

acuminado (feminine acuminada, masculine plural acuminados, feminine plural acuminadas)

1. accuminate (tapering to a point)

Participle

acuminado (feminine acuminada, masculine plural acuminados, feminine plural acuminadas)

1. past participle of acuminar

Further reading

• “acuminado”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “acuminado”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin acūminātus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /akumiˈnado/ [a.ku.miˈna.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: a‧cu‧mi‧na‧do

Adjective

acuminado (feminine acuminada, masculine plural acuminados, feminine plural acuminadas)

1. (botany, mycology) acuminate

Further reading

• “acuminado”, 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