amortizar
Portuguese
editEtymology
editUltimately from Vulgar Latin *admortīre, from Latin ad + mortem. Compare Spanish amortizar, Italian ammorzare, English amortize.
Pronunciation
edit
- Hyphenation: a‧mor‧ti‧zar
Verb
editamortizar (first-person singular present amortizo, first-person singular preterite amortizei, past participle amortizado)
- to amortize
- to pay in installments
- (debt) to write off, to redeem
- A empresa amortizou os empréstimos dos clientes que não pagavam. ― The company wrote off loans to clients that were not paying.
- O nosso banco amortizou as obrigações emitidas durante a pandemia. ― Our bank redeemed the bonds issued during the pandemic.
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of amortizar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “amortizar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
editEtymology
editFrom (the stem of) Middle French amortir (“to bring to death”), probably from Vulgar Latin *admortīre, from Latin ad + mortem. And -izar.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): (Spain) /amoɾtiˈθaɾ/ [a.moɾ.t̪iˈθaɾ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /amoɾtiˈsaɾ/ [a.moɾ.t̪iˈsaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: a‧mor‧ti‧zar
Verb
editamortizar (first-person singular present amortizo, first-person singular preterite amorticé, past participle amortizado)
- to amortize
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of amortizar (c-z alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of amortizar (c-z alternation)
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “amortizar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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