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encetar.

to start, commence, initiate

7 characters3 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

verb/ẽ.seˈta(ʁ)/Brazil[ẽ.seˈta(h)]Brazil/ĩ.seˈta(ʁ)/Brazil[ĩ.seˈta(h)]Brazil
  1. to start, commence, initiate

    transitive
    Encetar negociações.
  2. to open, to start (a package)

    transitive
    Encetar um pacote de bolachas.
  3. to cut, to take a piece (of food)

    transitive
    Encetar um melão.
  4. Do for the first time.

    pronominal
    Ele vai encetar-se no mundo da música com o seu primeiro álbum.
  5. Be the first to do something.

    pronominal
    Ele encetou a reunião. Ele encetou-a.
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese encetar, from Latin inceptāre (“to begin”). Compare Galician and Catalan encetar, and Spanish encentar.

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