acelerar

• acelarar (misspelling)

Learned borrowing from Latin accelerāre.

• Hyphenation: a‧ce‧le‧rar

acelerar (first-person singular present acelero, first-person singular preterite acelerei, past participle acelerado)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to accelerate (to increase speed or acquire speed, become swift)
2. (reflexive) to hurry up
3. (transitive) to advance
4. (transitive) to shorten (to reduce the time of)

• “acelerar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “acelerar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

• acelarar (misspelling)

Borrowed from Latin accelerāre (“to hasten, to accelerate”).

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /aθeleˈɾaɾ/ [a.θe.leˈɾaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /aseleˈɾaɾ/ [a.se.leˈɾaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧ce‧le‧rar

acelerar (first-person singular present acelero, first-person singular preterite aceleré, past participle acelerado)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to accelerate (to cause to move faster)

   Antonym: desacelerar

2. (intransitive) to hurry up

• “acelerar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10