congelar
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Probably borrowed from Latin congelāre.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Central) [kuɲ.ʒəˈla]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [koɲ.ʒəˈla]
- IPA(key): (Valencian) [koɲ.d͡ʒeˈlaɾ]
Verb edit
congelar (first-person singular present congelo, first-person singular preterite congelí, past participle congelat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencian) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/
- (transitive) to freeze
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Occitan edit
Etymology edit
Probably borrowed from Latin congelare, present active infinitive of congelo.
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congelar
- (transitive) to freeze
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This verb needs an inflection-table template.
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Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin congēlāre.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: con‧ge‧lar
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congelar (first-person singular present congelo, first-person singular preterite congelei, past participle congelado)
- (transitive, intransitive) to freeze
- Antonym: descongelar
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1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Quotations edit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:congelar.
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Further reading edit
- “congelar” in iDicionário Aulete.
- “congelar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “congelar” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “congelar” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
- “congelar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin congelāre. Cognate with English congeal.
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Verb edit
congelar (first-person singular present congelo, first-person singular preterite congelé, past participle congelado)
- (transitive) to freeze (to lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes)
- Synonym: helar
- (transitive) to freeze, to suspend (an activity, a program)
- 2019 April 22, León Krauze, “Dar la espalda al paisano”, in El Universal[1]:
- Hace un par de semanas, el Instituto Nacional de Migración (INM) removió de sus cargos a los representantes en Estados Unidos y congeló el programa de asistencia, al que piensa reestructurar próximamente.
- A couple of weeks ago, the National Migration Institute (NMI) removed representatives in the United States from their posts and froze the aid program, which it plans to restructure shortly.
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These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
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Further reading edit
- “congelar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014