embellecer
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Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /embeʝeˈseɾ/ [ẽm.be.ʝeˈseɾ] (most of Latin America)
- IPA(key): /embeʎeˈseɾ/ [ẽm.be.ʎeˈseɾ] (northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /embeʃeˈseɾ/ [ẽm.be.ʃeˈseɾ] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /embeʒeˈseɾ/ [ẽm.be.ʒeˈseɾ] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
- IPA(key): /embeeˈseɾ/ [ẽm.be.eˈseɾ] (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))
- Rhymes: -eɾ
- Syllabification: em‧be‧lle‧cer
Verb
[edit]embellecer (first-person singular present embellezco, first-person singular preterite embellecí, past participle embellecido)
- (transitive) to embellish, beautify, gussy up, dress up, make beautiful
- Antonym: afear
- (intransitive) to become beautiful
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of embellecer (c-zc alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of embellecer (c-zc alternation)
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “embellecer”, 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
- “embellecer”, in Diccionario del español de México, Segunda edición, Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, 2019
Categories:
- Spanish terms prefixed with en-
- Spanish terms suffixed with -ecer
- Spanish 4-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/eɾ
- Rhymes:Spanish/eɾ/4 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish verbs
- Spanish verbs ending in -er
- Spanish verbs with c-zc alternation
- Spanish transitive verbs
- Spanish intransitive verbs