silenciar

From silenci +‎ -ar.

silenciar (first-person singular present silencio, first-person singular preterite silencií, past participle silenciat)

1. to silence
2. to hush up, keep quiet, keep silent about (To refrain from talking about something)
3. to mute (to turn off the sound of the mobile, TV)

• silenciador

• “silenciar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “silenciar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “silenciar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “silenciar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From silencio +‎ -ar.

silenciar (first-person singular present silencio, first-person singular preterite silenciei, past participle silenciado)

1. to silence
2. to hush up, keep quiet, keep silent about (To refrain from talking about something)
3. to mute (to turn off the sound of the mobile, TV)

   Antonym: desilenciar

• silenciador
• silenciamento

• “silenciar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

From silêncio +‎ -ar.

• Hyphenation: si‧len‧ci‧ar

silenciar (first-person singular present silencio, first-person singular preterite silenciei, past participle silenciado)

1. (transitive) to silence; to quiet (to make something or someone silent)
2. to hush up, keep quiet, keep silent about (To refrain from talking about something)
3. to mute (to turn off the sound of the mobile, TV)

• silenciador
• silenciamento

• “silenciar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “silenciar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “silenciar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025

From silencio +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /silenˈθjaɾ/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /silenˈsjaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: si‧len‧ciar

silenciar (first-person singular present silencio, first-person singular preterite silencié, past participle silenciado)

1. to silence
2. to hush up, keep quiet, keep silent about (To refrain from talking about something)
3. to mute (to turn off the sound of the mobile, TV)

   Antonym: desilenciar

• “silenciar”, 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
• “silenciar” in Lexico, Oxford University Press.