acusar

From Latin accūsāre, present active infinitive of accūsō.

acusar (first-person singular indicative present acuso, past participle acusáu)

1. (transitive) to accuse (attribute blame to someone)

From Latin accūsāre, present active infinitive of accūsō.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ə.kuˈza/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a.kuˈzaɾ/

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• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

acusar (first-person singular present acuso, past participle acusat)

1. to accuse

• acusació

• “acusar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “acusar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “acusar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• accusar (obsolete)

From Old Galician-Portuguese acusar, from Latin accūsāre.

acusar (first-person singular present acuso, first-person singular preterite acusei, past participle acusado)

1. to accuse
2. inflection of acusar:
   1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive
   2. first/third-person singular personal infinitive

For quotations using this term, see Citations:acusar.

From Old Spanish acusar, from Latin accūsāre, present active infinitive of accūsō. Whether it was inherited or an early borrowing is disputed by some, but it appeared as early as El Cid in Old Spanish and there is no phonological reason to consider it a borrowing.[1]

• IPA^(key): /akuˈsaɾ/ [a.kuˈsaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧cu‧sar

acusar (first-person singular present acuso, first-person singular preterite acusé, past participle acusado)

1. (transitive) to accuse, charge, indict

   Synonym: denunciar

   acusar por gran jurado ― to indict

   Le acusaron de homicidio.

   They accused him of manslaughter.

2. (transitive) to criminate
3. (transitive) to arraign
4. (transitive) to prosecute
5. (transitive) to acknowledge (to notify sender of having received)

   acusar recibo ― to acknowledge receipt

6. (reflexive) to confess
7. (also reflexive) to show; to show signs of

   Synonyms: manifestar, revelar

   • 2023 March 7, Cristina Galindo, “Los ingresos de la plataforma de ropa Zalando se estancan y anuncia “cientos” de despidos”, in El País‎:

     La compañía alemana acusa el fin del auge del comercio electrónico y los beneficios se hunden un 92% en 2022[.]

     The German company is facing the end of the e-commerce boom and profits plunge 92% in 2022[.]

• → Cebuano: akusar
• Chavacano: acusa
• → Tagalog: akusa

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