acicate
Portuguese
editEtymology 1
editFrom Arabic السِّقَاط (as-siqāṭ).
Pronunciation
edit
Noun
editacicate m (plural acicates)
- spur (implement for prodding a horse)
- Synonym: espora
- (figuratively) incentive, spur (anything that inspires or motivates)
- Synonym: incentivo
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “acicate”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Etymology 2
editVerb
editacicate
- inflection of acicatar:
Spanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Andalusian Arabic السِّقَاط (as-siqáṭ). Compare Portuguese acicate.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): (Spain) /aθiˈkate/ [a.θiˈka.t̪e]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /asiˈkate/ [a.siˈka.t̪e]
- Rhymes: -ate
- Syllabification: a‧ci‧ca‧te
Noun
editacicate m (plural acicates)
- spur (implement for prodding a horse)
- Synonym: espuela
- (figuratively) incentive, spur (anything that inspires or motivates)
- Synonym: incentivo
- 1997, Roberto Bolaño, “Henri Simon Leprince”, in Llamadas telefónicas [Last Evenings on Earth]:
- Su presencia, su fragilidad, su espantosa soberanía, a algunos les sirve de acicate o de recordatorio.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “acicate”, 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
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- Rhymes:Spanish/ate
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- es:Equestrianism