ameaçar

See also: amẽaçar

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese amẽaçar, a variant of mẽaçar, either from mẽaça (“threat”) + -ar, or from a hypothetical Vulgar Latin *admināciāre (“to threaten”) < *mināciāre (“threaten”), from *minācia (“threat”), from Latin mināx, mināciae. Cognate with English menace. Compare Catalan amenaçar, French menacer, Galician ameazar, Italian minacciare, Occitan amenaçar, Romanian amenința, Sicilian amminazzari, Spanish amenazar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɐˌmjɐˈsaɾ]
• IPA^(key): [aˌmeaˈsa(ɹ)]
• IPA^(key): [aˌmeaˈsa(ɻ)]
• IPA^(key): [aˌmeaˈsa(χ)]
• IPA^(key): [aˌmeaˈsaː]

Verb

1. to threaten (to make a threat against someone; to use threats)
2. to endanger, menace
3. (catenative) to portend, threaten

Synonyms

• (1) intimidar

Related terms

• ameaça, ameaçado, ameaçador, ameaçante, ameaço