amerizar

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd

Proto-Italic *ad

Latin ad

Latin ad-

Old French a-

French a-

Proto-Indo-European *mer-?

Proto-Indo-European *móri

Proto-Italic *mari

Latin mare

Old French mer

Middle French mer

French mer

Proto-Italic *-jezi

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Latin -ereinflu.

Latin -īre

French -ir

French amerrir

French -age

French amerrissagebor.

Spanish amerizaje

Proto-Italic *-āzi

Latin -ereinflu.

Latin -āre

Spanish -ar

Spanish amerizar

Back-formation from amerizaje.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ameɾiˈθaɾ/ [a.me.ɾiˈθaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ameɾiˈsaɾ/ [a.me.ɾiˈsaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧me‧ri‧zar

Verb

amerizar (first-person singular present amerizo, first-person singular preterite americé, past participle amerizado)

1. (intransitive) Synonym of amarar

Conjugation

    Conjugation of amerizar (c-z alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			amerizar
gerund			amerizando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		amerizado		amerizada
		plural		amerizados		amerizadas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	amerizo	amerizastú amerizásvos	ameriza	amerizamos	amerizáis	amerizan
	imperfect	amerizaba	amerizabas	amerizaba	amerizábamos	amerizabais	amerizaban
	preterite	americé	amerizaste	amerizó	amerizamos	amerizasteis	amerizaron
	future	amerizaré	amerizarás	amerizará	amerizaremos	amerizaréis	amerizarán
	conditional	amerizaría	amerizarías	amerizaría	amerizaríamos	amerizaríais	amerizarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	americe	americestú americésvos2	americe	americemos	americéis	americen
	imperfect (ra)	amerizara	amerizaras	amerizara	amerizáramos	amerizarais	amerizaran
	imperfect (se)	amerizase	amerizases	amerizase	amerizásemos	amerizaseis	amerizasen
	future1	amerizare	amerizares	amerizare	amerizáremos	amerizareis	amerizaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		amerizatú amerizávos	americe	americemos	amerizad	americen
	negative		no americes	no americe	no americemos	no americéis	no americen

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

Further reading

• “amerizar”, 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