semicerrar
Portuguese
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌsẽ.mi.seˈʁa(ʁ)/ [ˌsẽ.mi.seˈha(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ˌsẽ.mi.seˈʁa(ɾ)/ [ˌsẽ.mi.seˈha(ɾ)]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˌsẽ.mi.seˈʁa(ʁ)/ [ˌsẽ.mi.seˈχa(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌse.mi.seˈʁa(ɻ)/ [ˌse.mi.seˈha(ɻ)]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /sɨˌmi.sɨˈʁaɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /sɨˌmi.sɨˈʁa.ɾi/
- Hyphenation: se‧mi‧cer‧rar
Verb
semicerrar (first-person singular present semicerro, first-person singular preterite semicerrei, past participle semicerrado)
- (transitive) to partially close something
- (intransitive) to squint (look with the eyes partly closed)
Conjugation
Conjugation of semicerrar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Further reading
- “semicerrar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
- “semicerrar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
- “semicerrar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “semicerrar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
- “semicerrar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025