encomendar
Portuguese
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom en- + Old Galician-Portuguese comendar, from Latin commendāre. Compare comandar, a doublet borrowed from French.
Pronunciation
edit- (Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.ko.mẽˈda(ʁ)/ [ẽ.ko.mẽˈda(h)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.ko.mẽˈda(ʁ)/ [ĩ.ko.mẽˈda(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.ko.mẽˈda(ɾ)/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.ko.mẽˈda(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.ko.mẽˈda(ʁ)/ [ẽ.ko.mẽˈda(χ)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.ko.mẽˈda(ʁ)/ [ĩ.ko.mẽˈda(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.ko.mẽˈda(ɻ)/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.ko.mẽˈda(ɻ)/
- Hyphenation: en‧co‧men‧dar
Verb
editencomendar (first-person singular present encomendo, first-person singular preterite encomendei, past participle encomendado)
- (transitive) to order; to instruct
- (transitive) to commission
- (transitive) to recommend
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to commend oneself; to entrust oneself
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of encomendar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Derived terms
editSpanish
editEtymology
editInherited from Old Spanish en- + comendar, from Latin commendāre. Compare comandar, a doublet borrowed from Italian or French.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editencomendar (first-person singular present encomiendo, first-person singular preterite encomendé, past participle encomendado)
- to entrust
- Encomendó la organización del evento a su asistente.
- She entrusted the organisation of the event to her assistant.
- 1602 — La Santa Biblia (antigua versión de Casiodoro de Reina), rev., Los Hechos 15:40
- Y Pablo escogiendo á Silas, partió encomendado de los hermanos á la gracia del Señor.
- 1992, Anjel Rekalde, Dorregarai: la casa torre:
- llevaba a término las misiones que le encomendaban
- I fulfilled the missions I was entrusted
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of encomendar (e-ie alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of encomendar (e-ie alternation)
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “encomendar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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