cancelar

Borrowed from Latin cancellāre (“to make like a lattice, to cover with a lattice, to cancel”), ultimately from cancer (“lattice, grid”), from Proto-Indo-European *geng- (“lump”). Doublet of chancelar, via French.

• Hyphenation: can‧ce‧lar

cancelar (first-person singular present cancelo, first-person singular preterite cancelei, past participle cancelado)

1. (transitive) to call off, to cancel

   Synonyms: anular, parar

   A festa foi cancelada.

   The party was called off.

2. (transitive, neologism) to cancel (a person deemed unacceptable)

   Ela foi cancelada na época, mas conseguiu reconquistar o público.

   She was cancelled at the time, but she was able to win back the public.

• “cancelar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “cancelar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “cancelar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “cancelar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “cancelar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from Late Latin cancellārius, from Latin cancelli, from cancer.

cancelar m (plural cancelari)

1. chancellor

Borrowed from Latin cancellāre.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /kanθeˈlaɾ/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /kanseˈlaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: can‧ce‧lar

cancelar (first-person singular present cancelo, first-person singular preterite cancelé, past participle cancelado)

1. (transitive) to cancel, call off
2. (transitive, neologism) to cancel (a person deemed unacceptable)
3. (transitive) to forget about; to scrap
4. (transitive, finance) to liquidate (a debt)
5. (transitive, Ecuador, Chile, Colombia, Peru) to pay

• “cancelar”, 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