começar

Galician

Verb

começar (first-person singular present começo, first-person singular preterite comecei, past participle começado)

  1. Alternative spelling of comezar

References

começar - Dicionário Estraviz

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *cominitiāre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ko.me.ˈt͡saɾ/
  • Rhymes: -aɾ

Verb

começar

  1. to start

Descendants

  • Galician: comezar
  • Portuguese: começar

Further reading

Portuguese

Alternative forms

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)/

  • Hyphenation: co‧me‧çar

Verb

começar (first-person singular present começo, first-person singular preterite comecei, past participle começado)

  1. (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
  2. (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
  3. (transitive) to start; to initiate (to cause something to begin)
    Aperte play para começar o vídeo.Press play to start the video.
    O acontecimento começou um debate sobre o crime.The occurrence started a debate about crime.
    Synonyms: iniciar, inicializar
    Antonyms: acabar com, terminar, finalizar, fechar
  4. (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
  5. (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
  6. inflection of começar:
    1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive
    2. first/third-person singular personal infinitive

Conjugation

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:começar.

Descendants

  • Makalero: komesa (to start)

References

  1. 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
  2. Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “comĭnĭtiare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 944

Further reading

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