adotar
Appearance
Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese adoutar, from Latin adoptāre.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: a‧do‧tar
Verb
[edit]adotar (first-person singular present adoto, first-person singular preterite adotei, past participle adotado)
- to adopt (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
- to apply an idea or concept
- A Rússia adotou o capitalismo em 1991.
- Russia adopted capitalism in 1991.
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of adotar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “adotar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024