embrutecer
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Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From em- + bruto + -ecer. Compare Spanish embrutecer.
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: em‧bru‧te‧cer
Verb
[edit]embrutecer (first-person singular present embruteço, first-person singular preterite embruteci, past participle embrutecido)
- (transitive) to stultify
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of embrutecer (c-ç alternation) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
Further reading
[edit]- “embrutecer”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “embrutecer”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Etymology tree
From en- + bruto + -ecer. Compare Portuguese embrutecer and Spanish brutalizar.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /embɾuteˈθeɾ/ [ẽm.bɾu.t̪eˈθeɾ] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
- IPA(key): /embɾuteˈseɾ/ [ẽm.bɾu.t̪eˈseɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -eɾ
- Syllabification: em‧bru‧te‧cer
Verb
[edit]embrutecer (first-person singular present embrutezco, first-person singular preterite embrutecí, past participle embrutecido)
- (transitive) to stultify
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of embrutecer (c-zc alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of embrutecer (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]- “embrutecer”, 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
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- Portuguese verbs with c-ç alternation
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- Spanish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₁én
- Spanish terms suffixed with -ecer
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- Rhymes:Spanish/eɾ
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