melhorar
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese melhorar, from Late Latin meliōrāre, a verb based on Latin meliārī (“better”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /me.ʎoˈɾa(ʁ)/ [me.ʎoˈɾa(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /me.ʎoˈɾa(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /me.ʎoˈɾa(ʁ)/ [me.ʎoˈɾa(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /me.ʎoˈɾa(ɻ)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /mɨ.ʎuˈɾaɾ/
- Hyphenation: me‧lho‧rar
Verb
melhorar (first-person singular present melhoro, first-person singular preterite melhorei, past participle melhorado)
- (transitive, intransitive) to improve, to ameliorate, to better
Conjugation
Conjugation of melhorar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazil.
2Portugal.
Related terms
Further reading
- “melhorar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
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