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assentar (first-person singular present assento, first-person singular preterite assentí, past participle assentat); root stress: (Central, Valencian, Balearic) /e/

  1. to settle, to set up

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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese assentar, asentar, from Vulgar Latin *adsedentāre, from Latin ad + sedentāre, or constructed in Old Portuguese as a- +‎ sentar (to sit).

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assentar (first-person singular present assento, first-person singular preterite assentei, past participle assentado, short past participle assente)

  1. to seat
  2. to register
  3. to settle; to determine; to decide

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In Brazil, the verb may be treated as having a regular past participle; speakers might use assentado in all cases. This is considered nonstandard, however.

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