ameaçar

From Old Portuguese amẽaçar, a variant of mẽaçar, either from mẽaça (“threat”) + -ar, or from a hypothetical Vulgar Latin *admināciāre (“to threaten”) < *mināciāre (“threaten”), from *minācia (“threat”), from Latin mināx, mināciae. Cognate with English menace. Compare Catalan amenaçar, French menacer, Galician ameazar, Italian minacciare, Occitan amenaçar, Romanian amenința, Sicilian amminazzari, Spanish amenazar.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): [ɐˌmjɐˈsaɾ]
• (Paulista) IPA^(key): [aˌmeaˈsa(ɹ)]
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): [aˌmeaˈsa(ɻ)]
• (Carioca) IPA^(key): [aˌmeaˈsa(χ)]
• (Nordestino) IPA^(key): [aˌmeaˈsaː]

ameaçar (first-person singular present indicative ameaço, past participle ameaçado)

1. to threaten (to make a threat against someone; to use threats)
2. to endanger, menace
3. (catenative) to portend, threaten

• (1) intimidar

• ameaça, ameaçado, ameaçador, ameaçante, ameaço