offertar

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: of‧fer‧tar

Verb

offertar (first-person singular present offerto, first-person singular preterite offertei, past participle offertado)

  1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of ofertar
    • 1935 August 11, Odilson Nestor, “O Sultão [The Sultan]”, in Diario de Pernambuco, volume 110, number 189, Recife, section 2, page 1:
      No estojo que lhe offertou / a dama do coração, / mais tarde abrindo-o, o sultão, / só um cigarro encontrou!
      In the case that the lady of his heart had given him, when he later opened it, the sultan found only a single cigarette.

Usage notes

This spelling coexisted with ofertar.

Conjugation