prazer

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Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin placēre, with an irregular phonetic development concerning the initial consonant cluster (the regular outcome would have been *chazer).

Pronunciation

Noun

prazer m

  1. pleasure
  2. please

Alternative forms

Verb

prazer

  1. to please
    • 13th century, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Quen soubér Santa María loar, será de bon sen :
      pero prazer-m-ía muito se m' oíssedes mui ben.
      however, it would really please me if you would listen to me mindfully.

Conjugation

Alternative forms

Descendants

  • Galician: pracer
  • Portuguese: prazer

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese prazer, from Latin placēre,[1][2][3][4] with an irregular phonetic development concerning the initial consonant cluster (the regular outcome would have been *chazer). Compare Spanish placer and Galician pracer.

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Hyphenation: pra‧zer

Noun

prazer m (plural prazeres)

  1. pleasure
  2. please

Interjection

prazer

  1. pleased to meet you

Verb

prazer (third-person only, third-person singular present praz, third-person singular preterite prouve, past participle prazido)

  1. to please

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ prazer”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 20032025
  2. ^ prazer”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 20082025
  3. ^ prazer”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 20082025
  4. ^ prazer”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 20152025