formosentar
Portuguese
Etymology
From formoso (“beautiful”) + -entar.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /foʁ.mo.zẽˈta(ʁ)/ [foɦ.mo.zẽˈta(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /foɾ.mo.zẽˈta(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /foʁ.mo.zẽˈta(ʁ)/ [foʁ.mo.zẽˈta(χ)]
- (Caipira) IPA(key): /foɻ.mo.zẽˈta(ɻ)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /fuɾ.mu.zẽˈtaɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /fuɾ.mu.zẽˈta.ɾi/
- Hyphenation: for‧mo‧sen‧tar
Verb
formosentar (first-person singular present formosento, first-person singular preterite formosentei, past participle formosentado)
- (transitive) to embellish, to adorn
- Synonyms: aformosentar, aformosear, adornar, enfeitar
- (pronominal) to beautify oneself, to adorn oneself
- formosentar-se
- to beautify oneself
Conjugation
Conjugation of formosentar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Further reading
- “formosentar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “formosentar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026