reconfortar

reconfortar (first-person singular present reconforto, first-person singular preterite reconfortí, past participle reconfortat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/

1. (transitive) to comfort

• “reconfortar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “reconfortar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “reconfortar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “reconfortar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• Hyphenation: re‧con‧for‧tar

reconfortar (first-person singular present reconforto, first-person singular preterite reconfortei, past participle reconfortado)

1. to comfort (relieve the distress or suffering of)

   Synonym: consolar

• “reconfortar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

From re- +‎ confortar.

• IPA^(key): /rekonfoɾˈtaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: re‧con‧for‧tar

reconfortar (first-person singular present reconforto, first-person singular preterite reconforté, past participle reconfortado)

1. to comfort
2. to cheer up

• “reconfortar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28