embolden

English

Etymology

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɛmˈbəʊldən/
Rhymes: -əʊldən

Verb

embolden (third-person singular simple present emboldens, present participle emboldening, simple past and past participle emboldened)

(transitive) To render (someone) bolder or more courageous.
(transitive) To encourage, inspire, or motivate.
(transitive, typography) To format text in boldface.
- 2004, Jason Whittaker, The Cyberspace Handbook, page 216:
 In HTML, the tags indicate paragraphs breaks, and we have included some basic text formatting: for emphasis (typically italics), for underline and to embolden text.

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:embolden.

Synonyms

(typography): boldface

Translations

To encourage, inspire, or motivate

Armenian: քաջալերել (hy) (kʿaǰalerel)
Bulgarian: насърчавам (bg) (nasǎrčavam), окуражавам (bg) (okuražavam)
Dutch: moed geven,verstouten
French: encourager (fr),enhardir (fr)

Galician: arrufar
Greek:
Ancient: θρασύνω (thrasúnō)
Spanish: envalentonar (es), encorajar (es)

to format text in boldface

Hungarian: félkövérít

References

The Oxford English Dictionary (2007) states that embolden was formed by the simultaneous prefixing of en- (or in-) and suffixing of -en, which, by definition, constitutes circumfixation.

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[OED-etym-1] The Oxford English Dictionary (2007) states that embolden was formed by the simultaneous prefixing of en- (or in-) and suffixing of -en, which, by definition, constitutes circumfixation.