começar
Galician
Verb
começar (first-person singular present começo, first-person singular preterite comecei, past participle começado)
- Alternative spelling of comezar
Related terms
References
Old Galician-Portuguese
Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *cominitiāre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ko.me.ˈt͡saɾ/
- Rhymes: -aɾ
Further reading
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- commeçar (obsolete)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese começar, from Vulgar Latin *cominitiāre, from com- + Latin initiāre. Compare Galician comezar. It has been supposed that the Portuguese form developed via an unattested *comẽeçar, but this appears unlikely.[1] The loss of /n/ was likely due to analogy with the synonym empeçar[2] (cf. Spanish comenzar, diphthongally influenced by empezar).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ko.meˈsa(ʁ)/ [ko.meˈsa(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ko.meˈsa(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ko.meˈsa(ʁ)/ [ko.meˈsa(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ko.meˈsa(ɻ)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ku.mɨˈsaɾ/
- Hyphenation: co‧me‧çar
Verb
começar (first-person singular present começo, first-person singular preterite comecei, past participle começado)
- (intransitive) to start; to begin; to commence
- Fique quieto, o filme já vai começar! ― Keep quiet, the movie is going to start soon!
- Synonyms: iniciar, principiar
- Antonyms: acabar, terminar
- (transitive) to begin; to start to do
- Vou começar a lição de inglês falando sobre verbos irregulares. ― I will start the English lesson talking about irregular verbs.
- Synonyms: iniciar, principiar
- Antonyms: acabar, terminar
- (transitive) to start; to initiate (to cause something to begin)
- (auxiliary with a or por (less common) and a verb in the impersonal infinitive) to begin [to]
- Um pirralho começou a gritar. ― A brat began to scream / began screaming.
- Synonym: principiar
- Antonyms: terminar de, parar de
- (intransitive) to begin (to have a first experience)
- Não sei cozinhar ainda, mas comecei com alguns pratos simples. ― I don't know how to cook yet, but I started with some simple foods.
- Synonym: principiar
- Antonym: terminar
- inflection of começar:
- first/third-person singular future subjunctive
- first/third-person singular personal infinitive
Conjugation
Conjugation of começar (c-ç alternation) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazil.
2Portugal.
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:começar.
Descendants
- → Makalero: komesa (“to start”)
References
- Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1984), “comenzar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 157
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “comĭnĭtiare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 944
Further reading
- “começar” in iDicionário Aulete.
- “começar” in Dicionário inFormal.
- “começar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “começar” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
- “começar” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
- “começar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
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