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Portuguese
Etymology
From em- + base (“base; basis”) + -ar.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.baˈza(ʁ)/ , (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.baˈza(ʁ)/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.baˈza(ʁ)/ , (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.baˈza(ʁ)/
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.baˈza(ɾ)/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.baˈza(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.baˈza(ʁ)/ , (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.baˈza(ʁ)/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.baˈza(ɻ)/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.baˈza(ɻ)/
Verb
embasar (first-person singular present embaso, first-person singular preterite embasei, past participle embasado)
- (transitive, architecture) to build (a building’s) foundation
- (transitive) to base
- Ele embasou a teoria nas suas observações. ― He based the theory on his observations.
Conjugation
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Derived terms
Spanish
Verb
embasar
- only used in se ... embasar, syntactic variant of embasarse