ambientar

From ambient +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

ambientar (first-person singular present ambiento, first-person singular preterite ambientí, past participle ambientat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. (transitive) to set (to locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to)
2. (transitive) to provide an ambiance to a place

• “ambientar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “ambientar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “ambientar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

From ambiente +‎ -ar.

• Hyphenation: am‧bi‧en‧tar

ambientar (first-person singular present ambiento, first-person singular preterite ambientei, past participle ambientado)

1. (reflexive) to settle into, to settle in, to acclimate

From ambiente +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /ambjenˈtaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: am‧bien‧tar

ambientar (first-person singular present ambiento, first-person singular preterite ambienté, past participle ambientado)

1. (transitive, cinematography, literature, theater) to set (to locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to)
2. (transitive) to provide an ambiance to a place
3. (reflexive) to settle into, to settle in, to acclimate

• “ambientar”, 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