demonstrar

Pseudo-Hispanism, from English demonstrate, and influenced by Spanish demostrar.

• Hyphenation: de‧mons‧trar
• IPA^(key): /deˈmonstɾaɾ/

demonstrár

1. Alternative form of demostrar.

Borrowed from Esperanto demonstri, English demonstrate, French démontrer, German demonstrieren, Italian dimostrare, Russian демонстри́ровать (demonstrírovatʹ), Spanish demostrar, ultimately from Latin dēmōnstrō (“I demonstrate”).

• IPA^(key): /deˈmonstrar/

demonstrar (present tense demonstras, past tense demonstris, future tense demonstros, imperative demonstrez, conditional demonstrus)

1. (transitive) to demonstrate

From Old Portuguese demonstrar, demostrar, from Latin dēmōnstrāre (“to demonstrate”), with a re-Latinized spelling.

demonstrar (first-person singular present demonstro, first-person singular preterite demonstrei, past participle demonstrado)

1. to demonstrate (all senses)
2. to show, prove
3. inflection of demonstrar:
   1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive
   2. first/third-person singular personal infinitive

• demonstração
• demonstrável