aproximar
Catalan
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin approximāre.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): (Central) [ə.pɾuk.siˈma]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [ə.pɾok.siˈma]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [a.pɾok.siˈmaɾ]
- Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
Verb
editaproximar (first-person singular present aproximo, first-person singular preterite aproximí, past participle aproximat)
- (transitive) to bring close or closer
- (reflexive) to come close or closer, to approach
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of aproximar (first conjugation)
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “aproximar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Portuguese
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin approximāre.
Pronunciation
edit
- (Northeast Brazil) IPA(key): /a.pɾɔ.si.ˈma(h)/
- Hyphenation: a‧pro‧xi‧mar
Verb
editaproximar (first-person singular present aproximo, first-person singular preterite aproximei, past participle aproximado)
- (pronominal) to approach (to get closer to) [with de ‘someone, something or a location’]
- Não se aproxime daquela região, está contaminada.
- Don’t approach that region, it’s contaminated.
- (pronominal) to approach (to come nearer)
- Podem se aproximar, não estou armado.
- You can approach, I’m not armed.
- (transitive) to approach (to make things get nearer)
- É difícil aproximar os polos iguais de um par de ímãs.
- It’s hard to put the equal poles of a pair of magnets near one another.
- (transitive) to approximate; to estimate (to calculate roughly)
- Não tivemos tempo para medir a área então aproximamos um valor.
- We didn’t have time to measure the area, so we estimated a value.
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of aproximar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Derived terms
editSpanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin approximāre.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editaproximar (first-person singular present aproximo, first-person singular preterite aproximé, past participle aproximado)
- to approach
- (mathematics) to approximate
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of aproximar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of aproximar
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “aproximar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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