encenar
Portuguese
Etymology
From en- + cena (“stage”) + -ar.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.seˈna(ʁ)/ [ẽ.seˈna(h)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.seˈna(ʁ)/ [ĩ.seˈna(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.seˈna(ɾ)/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.seˈna(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.seˈna(ʁ)/ [ẽ.seˈna(χ)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.seˈna(ʁ)/ [ĩ.seˈna(χ)]
- (Caipira) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.seˈna(ɻ)/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.seˈna(ɻ)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ẽ.sɨˈnaɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ẽ.sɨˈna.ɾi/
- Hyphenation: en‧ce‧nar
Verb
encenar (first-person singular present enceno, first-person singular preterite encenei, past participle encenado)
- (dramaturgy, transitive, intransitive) to stage (to produce on a stage)
- (transitive, intransitive) to stage (to demonstrate in a deceptive manner)
Conjugation
Conjugation of encenar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Further reading
- “encenar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “encenar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026