realce

See also: realcé

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈaw.si/ [heˈaʊ̯.si]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈaw.si/ [heˈaʊ̯.si]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈaw.si/ [χeˈaʊ̯.si]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈaw.se/ [heˈaʊ̯.se]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁjal.sɨ/ [ˈʁjaɫ.sɨ]

• Rhymes: -alsɨ, -awsi
• Hyphenation: re‧al‧ce

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *wre-

Latin re-

Old Galician-Portuguese re-

Portuguese re-

Portuguese alçar

Portuguese realçardeverb.

Portuguese realce

Deverbal from realçar.

Noun

realce m (plural realces)

1. highlight; emphasis

   Synonyms: ênfase, destaque

Etymology 2

Verb

realce

1. inflection of realçar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reˈalθe/ [reˈal̟.θe] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /reˈalse/ [reˈal.se] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -alθe (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• Rhymes: -alse (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: re‧al‧ce

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *wre-

Latin re-der.

Spanish re-

Spanish alzar

Spanish realzardeverb.

Spanish realce

Deverbal from realzar.

Noun

realce m (plural realces)

1. enhancement
   • 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:

     -Ya el Sr. D. Buenaventura -manifestó Amarillo levantándose-, está conforme en dar realce con su presencia a ambas procesiones.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Etymology 2

Verb

realce

1. inflection of realzar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “realce”, 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