demonstrar

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

• Hyphenation: de‧mons‧trar
• IPA^(key): /demonsˈtɾaɾ/ [d̪e.mon̪sˈtɾaɾ]

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 Galician-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

• demonstração
• demonstrável

• IPA^(key): /demonsˈtɾaɾ/ [d̪e.mõnsˈt̪ɾaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: de‧mons‧trar

demonstrar

1. Alternative form of demostrar

• “demonstrar”, 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
• Diccionario de Autoridades(1726-1739)