melhorar
Portuguese
editEtymology
editFrom Old Galician-Portuguese melhorar, from Late Latin meliōrāre, a verb based on Latin meliārī (“better”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: me‧lho‧rar
Verb
editmelhorar (first-person singular present melhoro, first-person singular preterite melhorei, past participle melhorado)
- (transitive, intransitive) to improve, to ameliorate, to better
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of melhorar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “melhorar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
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