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Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese bautizar, batiçar, a semi-learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin baptīzāre (“to baptise”), from Ancient Greek βαπτίζω (baptízō, “to immerse, plunge, baptise”).
Pronunciation
Verb
batizar (first-person singular present batizo, first-person singular preterite batizei, past participle batizado)
- (transitive) to baptise
- (transitive) to christen
Conjugation
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Further reading
- “batizar”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- “batizar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
- “batizar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “batizar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
- “batizar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024