adornar

Borrowed from Latin adōrnāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

adornar (first-person singular present adorno, first-person singular preterite adorní, past participle adornat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /o/

1. to adorn
   • 2009, Jean Grave, Les Aventures d'en Nono:

     es trovaba dividida en llotges profusament adornades

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• adorn
• adornament

• “adornar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “adornar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “adornar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “adornar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Latin adōrnāre.

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• Hyphenation: a‧dor‧nar

adornar (first-person singular present adorno, first-person singular preterite adornei, past participle adornado)

1. to adorn

   Synonyms: enfeitar, ornamentar, ornar

• adorno

• “adornar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from Latin adōrnāre.

• IPA^(key): /adoɾˈnaɾ/

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧dor‧nar

adornar (first-person singular present adorno, first-person singular preterite adorné, past participle adornado)

1. to adorn, to ornament, to decorate, to garnish, to embellish, to dress, to bedeck, to deck

   Synonym: decorar

2. to trim (e.g. a Christmas tree)
3. (Argentina, slang) to buy off; to bribe

   Synonyms: sobornar, coimear

• “adornar”, 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