escarnecer
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese escarneçer, corresponding to escarnir + -ecer.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /iʃ.kɐɾ.nɨ.ˈseɾ/
- Hyphenation: es‧car‧ne‧cer
Verb
escarnecer (first-person singular present indicative escarneço, past participle escarnecido)
Conjugation
Conjugation of the Portuguese -er verb escarnecer
Synonyms
- zoar, tirrar sarro, caçoar, zombar, ridicularizar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- (Castilian) IPA(key): /eskarneˈθeɾ/
- (Latin America) IPA(key): /eskarneˈseɾ/
Verb
escarnecer (first-person singular present escarnezco, first-person singular preterite escarnecí, past participle escarnecido)
Conjugation
- Rule: c becomes a zc before a or o.
- 1 Mostly obsolete form, now mainly used in legal jargon.
Other verbs with this conjugation:
► <a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Spanish_verbs_ending_in_-er_(conjugation_c-zc)'>Spanish verbs ending in -er (conjugation c-zc)</a>
Further reading
- “escarnecer” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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