Portuguese

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Etymology

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From 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

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melhorar (first-person singular present melhoro, first-person singular preterite melhorei, past participle melhorado)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to improve, to ameliorate, to better

Conjugation

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Further reading

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  • melhorar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913