acicate

From Arabic السِّقَاط‎ (as-siqāṭ).

acicate m (plural acicates)

1. spur (implement for prodding a horse)

   Synonym: espora

2. (figuratively) incentive, spur (anything that inspires or motivates)

   Synonym: incentivo

• acicatar

• “acicate” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic السِّقَاط‎ (as-siqáṭ). Compare Portuguese acicate.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /aθiˈkate/ [a.θiˈka.t̪e]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /asiˈkate/ [a.siˈka.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ate
• Syllabification: a‧ci‧ca‧te

acicate m (plural acicates)

1. spur (implement for prodding a horse)

   Synonym: espuela

2. (figuratively) incentive, spur (anything that inspires or motivates)

   Synonym: incentivo

   • 1997, Roberto Bolaño, “Henri Simon Leprince”, in Llamadas telefónicas [Last Evenings on Earth]:

     Su presencia, su fragilidad, su espantosa soberanía, a algunos les sirve de acicate o de recordatorio.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

• “acicate”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014