auscultar

Borrowed from Latin auscultāre. Doublet of escoltar, which was inherited.

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

auscultar (first-person singular present ausculto, first-person singular preterite auscultí, past participle auscultat)

1. (medicine) to auscultate (to listen to internal organs)

• auscultació

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

Learned borrowing from Latin auscultāre (“to listen”). Doublet of escutar.

• Hyphenation: aus‧cul‧tar

auscultar (first-person singular present ausculto, first-person singular preterite auscultei, past participle auscultado)

1. (medicine) to auscultate (to listen to internal organs)
   • 2013, Patricia Potter, Anne Griffin Perry, Martha Keene Elkin, Procedimentos e Intervenções de Enfermagem, Elsevier Brasil, →ISBN, page 136:

     Se você auscultar ruídos adventícios, faça o paciente tossir. Ouça mais uma vez com o estetoscópio para determinar se o som abafou com a tosse.

     If you auscultate adventitious noises, make the patient cough. Listen again with the stethoscope to determine if the sound has been muffled by the cough.

2. (figuratively) to examine

   Synonym: examinar

3. (figuratively) to sound out (to question and listen attentively in order to discover a person's opinion, intent, or preference)
   • 2011, Manuel da Silva Ramos, Três Vidas ao Espelho, Leya, →ISBN, page 254:

     ... estilo de vida boémio e tabernal para auscultar e consciencializar as classes mais desfavorecidas que continuavam a gostar de vinho e de chalaça.

     ... bohemian and tabernacle lifestyle to sound out to and raise awareness among the poorer classes who still liked wine and chalaça.

• escutar

Borrowed from Latin auscultāre (“to listen”). Compare the inherited doublet escuchar.

• IPA^(key): /auskulˈtaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: aus‧cul‧tar

auscultar (first-person singular present ausculto, first-person singular preterite ausculté, past participle auscultado)

1. (medicine) to auscultate (to listen to internal organs)
2. to examine; to probe; to sound out

• “auscultar”, 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