reconfortante

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Portuguese reconfortar

Proto-Indo-European *-onts

Latin -ns

Latin -antem

Old Galician-Portuguese -ante

Portuguese -ante

Portuguese reconfortante

From reconfortar + -ante.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁe.kõ.foʁˈtɐ̃.t͡ʃi/ [he.kõ.fohˈtɐ̃.t͡ʃi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁe.kõ.foʁˈtɐ̃.t͡ʃi/ [he.kõ.fohˈtɐ̃.t͡ʃi]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ʁe.kõ.foɾˈtɐ̃.t͡ʃi/ [he.kõ.foɾˈtɐ̃.t͡ʃi]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁe.kõ.foʁˈtɐ̃.t͡ʃi/ [χe.kõ.foχˈtɐ̃.t͡ʃi]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ʁe.kõ.foɻˈtɐ̃.t͡ʃi/ [he.kõ.foɻˈtɐ̃.t͡ʃi]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨ.kõ.fuɾˈtɐ̃.tɨ/

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃tɨ, -ɐ̃tʃi
• Hyphenation: re‧con‧for‧tan‧te

Adjective

reconfortante m or f (plural reconfortantes)

1. comforting

Further reading

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

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *wre-

Latin re-der.

Spanish re-

Spanish confortar

Spanish reconfortar

Proto-Indo-European *-onts

Latin -ns

Latin -antem

Spanish -ante

Spanish reconfortante

From reconfortar + -ante.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rekonfoɾˈtante/ [re.kõɱ.foɾˈt̪ãn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ante
• Syllabification: re‧con‧for‧tan‧te

Adjective

reconfortante m or f (masculine and feminine plural reconfortantes)

1. comforting

Further reading

• “reconfortante”, 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