acostar

Catalan

Etymology

From a- +‎ costa (“coast”) +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)
• Homophone: acostà
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

Verb

acostar (first-person singular present acosto, first-person singular preterite acostí, past participle acostat); root stress: (Central, Valencian, Balearic) /ɔ/

1. (transitive) to bring closer

Conjugation

Derived terms

• acostament
• acostar-se

Further reading

• “acostar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Anagrams

• atracos, costara, costarà, tocaràs

Portuguese

Etymology

From a- +‎ costa +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: a‧cos‧tar

Verb

acostar (first-person singular present acosto, first-person singular preterite acostei, past participle acostado)

1. (intransitive, nautical) to dock; to board

Conjugation

Anagrams

• cotaras, cotarás, tocaras, tocarás

Spanish

Etymology

From a- +‎ costa (“coast”) +‎ -ar. Cognate with English accost (“to lie alongside”, obsolete definition).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /akosˈtaɾ/

• Audio (Venezuela):

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧cos‧tar

Verb

acostar (first-person singular present acuesto, first-person singular preterite acosté, past participle acostado)

1. (transitive) to lay
2. (transitive) to put to bed

   Ya es hora de acostar a los niños.

   It's time to put the children to bed.

3. (nautical) to land, put in, berth
4. to arrive at the coast
5. (reflexive) to go to bed, to lie down

   Se acuesta temprano pero tarda en dormirse.

   He goes to bed early but it takes him a long time to get to sleep.

   • 1971, Joan Manuel Serrat (lyrics and music), “Lucía”:

     Y tu sombra aún se acuesta en mi cama
     Con la oscuridad entre mi almohada y mi soledad

     And your shadow still lies down in my bed
     With the darkness between my pillow and my loneliness

6. (reflexive, with con) to sleep with

   Pablo sospecha que su mujer se acuesta con otro.

   Pablo suspects his wife is sleeping with another man.

Conjugation

for most meanings:

for the meaning "arrive at the coast":

Derived terms

Further reading

• “acostar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014