principiar
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /pɾĩ.si.piˈa(ʁ)/ [pɾĩ.si.pɪˈa(h)], (faster pronunciation) /pɾĩ.siˈpja(ʁ)/ [pɾĩ.siˈpja(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /pɾĩ.si.piˈa(ɾ)/ [pɾĩ.si.pɪˈa(ɾ)], (faster pronunciation) /pɾĩ.siˈpja(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /pɾĩ.si.piˈa(ʁ)/ [pɾĩ.si.pɪˈa(χ)], (faster pronunciation) /pɾĩ.siˈpja(ʁ)/ [pɾĩ.siˈpja(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /pɾĩ.si.piˈa(ɻ)/ [pɾĩ.si.pɪˈa(ɻ)], (faster pronunciation) /pɾĩ.siˈpja(ɻ)/
- Hyphenation: prin‧ci‧pi‧ar
Verb edit
principiar (first-person singular present principio, first-person singular preterite principiei, past participle principiado)
- (transitive) to initiate (to cause something to start)
- (intransitive) to begin; to start; to commence
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of principiar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “principiar” in Dicionário inFormal.
- “principiar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “principiar” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “principiar” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
- “principiar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From Latin principiare, from princeps.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /pɾinθiˈpjaɾ/ [pɾĩn̟.θiˈpjaɾ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /pɾinsiˈpjaɾ/ [pɾĩn.siˈpjaɾ]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: prin‧ci‧piar
Verb edit
principiar (first-person singular present principio, first-person singular preterite principié, past participle principiado)
- (transitive) to begin
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of principiar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of principiar
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Further reading edit
- “principiar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014