entreter
Galician
Etymology
Compare Portuguese entreter, Spanish entretener.
Pronunciation
Verb
entreter (first-person singular present entreteño, first-person singular preterite entretiven, past participle entretido)
entreter (first-person singular present entretenho, first-person singular preterite entretivem or entretive, past participle entretido, reintegrationist norm)
Conjugation
1Less recommended.
Related terms
Further reading
- “entreter”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
Portuguese
Etymology
Calque of Spanish entretener;[1] compare also French entretenir. By surface analysis, entre- + ter.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: en‧tre‧ter
Verb
entreter (first-person singular present entretenho, first-person singular preterite entretive, past participle entretido)
- (transitive) to amuse; to entertain
- Synonym: divertir
Conjugation
Nonstandard conjugation:
Descendants
- Macanese: entretê
References
- ^ “entreter”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
Further reading
- “entreter” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “entreter”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
- “entreter”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
- Galician terms with IPA pronunciation
- Galician lemmas
- Galician verbs
- Galician verbs ending in -er
- Galician irregular verbs
- Portuguese terms calqued from Spanish
- Portuguese terms derived from Spanish
- Portuguese terms prefixed with entre-
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese 4-syllable words
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese verbs
- Portuguese verbs ending in -er
- Portuguese irregular verbs
- Portuguese transitive verbs