amolecer

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin mollēscere.

• IPA^(key): /amoleˈθeɾ/, (western) /amoleˈseɾ/

amolecer (first-person singular present amolezo, first-person singular preterite amolecín, past participle amolecido)
amolecer (first-person singular present amoleço, first-person singular preterite amolecim or amoleci, past participle amolecido, reintegrationist norm)

1. (transitive) to soften

   Synonyms: abrandar, adondar, amolentar

2. (transitive) to soak
3. (transitive) to dunk
4. (transitive) to macerate

   Synonym: macerar

5. (intransitive) to soften
   • 1853, Juan Manuel Pintos, A Gaita Gallega:

     Camiños de perdiciós pratican os máis e os menos máis de cen. O carballo máis ferrudo si o becho lle crava o dente no raigado, amolece e xa golbudo vén ao chan prestamente derrumbado. Os vicios son bechos fortes que amolegan corpos duros e valentes

     Roads to perdition, the most and the least practice more than a hundred. The most robust oak, if the bug sink his teeth in the roots, softens and, when rotten, comes to the ground promptly, slumped. Vices are strong bugs that soften hard and bold bodies.

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “amolecer”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “amolecer”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “amolecer” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “amolecer”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Latin mollēscere.

• Hyphenation: a‧mo‧le‧cer

amolecer (first-person singular present amoleço, first-person singular preterite amoleci, past participle amolecido)

1. to soften
2. to macerate