esforzar
Appearance
Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese esforçar, from Vulgar Latin *exfortiāre, ultimately from Latin fortis (“strong”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]esforzar (first-person singular present esforzo, first-person singular preterite esforcei, past participle esforzado)
- (pronominal) to encourage; to exert oneself
- (transitive) to force
- (transitive) to rape
- (transitive, dated) to encourage, strengthen
- (intransitive, dated) to take courage, gather strength
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of esforzar (c-z alternation)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “esforçar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “esforzar”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “esforzar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “esforzar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “esforzar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Vulgar Latin *exfortiāre, ultimately from Latin fortis (“strong”). Or, by surface analysis, es- + forzar.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /esfoɾˈθaɾ/ [es.foɾˈθaɾ] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
- IPA(key): /esfoɾˈsaɾ/ [es.foɾˈsaɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: es‧for‧zar
Verb
[edit]esforzar (first-person singular present esfuerzo, first-person singular preterite esforcé, past participle esforzado)
- (transitive) to encourage
- (transitive) to strain, struggle
- (reflexive) to strive
- (reflexive) to attempt
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of esforzar (o-ue alternation; c-z alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of esforzar (o-ue alternation; c-z alternation)
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “esforzar”, 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
Categories:
- Galician terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Galician terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Galician terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Galician terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Galician terms derived from Latin
- Galician terms with IPA pronunciation
- Galician lemmas
- Galician verbs
- Galician verbs ending in -ar
- Galician verbs with c-z alternation
- Galician transitive verbs
- Galician dated terms
- Galician intransitive verbs
- Spanish terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish terms prefixed with es-
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/aɾ
- Rhymes:Spanish/aɾ/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish verbs
- Spanish verbs ending in -ar
- Spanish verbs with o-ue alternation
- Spanish verbs with c-z alternation
- Spanish transitive verbs
- Spanish reflexive verbs