soprar
Portuguese edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese soprar, *soplar, probably a semi-learned term derived from Latin sufflāre (“to blow, to puff up, to inflate”). Alternatively, from Vulgar Latin *supplāre, *sopplāre.
Cognate with Galician soprar, Spanish soplar and Venetian supiar.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: so‧prar
Verb edit
soprar (first-person singular present sopro, first-person singular preterite soprei, past participle soprado)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of soprar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.