acalmar

From a- +‎ calmo (“calm”) +‎ -ar.

• Hyphenation: a‧cal‧mar

acalmar (first-person singular present acalmo, first-person singular preterite acalmei, past participle acalmado)

1. (transitive) to calm; to calm down (to make calm)

   Acalme seus filhos, senão expulso vocês da loja.

   Calm your children down or I will throw you out of the store.

2. (pronominal) to calm down (to become calm)

   Tomei um chá para me acalmar.

   I drank some tea in order to calm down.

3. (intransitive or pronominal) to calm down (to become less agitated)

   O barulho das folhas acalmou.

   The noise of the leaves calmed down.

   Depois da tempestade, o mar se acalmou.

   After the storm, the sea calmed down.

• acalmação

• IPA^(key): /akalˈmaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧cal‧mar

acalmar (first-person singular present acalmo, first-person singular preterite acalmé, past participle acalmado)

1. Obsolete form of calmar.

• “acalmar”, 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