ameaçar

ameaçar (first-person singular present ameaço, first-person singular preterite ameacei, past participle ameaçado)

1. reintegrationist spelling of ameazar

• “ameaçar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

From Old Portuguese amẽaçar, a variant of mẽaçar, either from mẽaça (“threat”) + -ar, or from a hypothetical Vulgar Latin *admināciāre (“to threaten”) < *mināciāre (“threaten”), from minācia (“threat”), from Latin mināciae. Cognate with English menace. Compare Catalan and Occitan amenaçar, French menacer, Galician ameazar, Italian minacciare, Romanian amenința, Sicilian amminazzari, Spanish amenazar.

• (Nordestino) IPA^(key): [aˌmeaˈsaː]

ameaçar (first-person singular present ameaço, first-person singular preterite ameacei, past participle ameaçado)

1. to threaten (to make a threat against someone; to use threats)

   Synonym: intimidar

2. to endanger, menace
3. (catenative) to portend, threaten

• ameaça, ameaçado, ameaçador, ameaçante, ameaço