cecear
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[edit]Etymology
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Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: ce‧ce‧ar
Verb
[edit]cecear (first-person singular present ceceio, first-person singular preterite ceceei, past participle ceceado)
- to lisp (to pronounce the sibilant letter /s/ imperfectly)
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of cecear (e becomes ei when stressed) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Onomatopoeic.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /θeθeˈaɾ/ [θe.θeˈaɾ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /seseˈaɾ/ [se.seˈaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: ce‧ce‧ar
Verb
[edit]cecear (first-person singular present ceceo, first-person singular preterite ceceé, past participle ceceado)
- (intransitive) to make a sibilant noise
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of cecear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive | cecear | ||||||
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gerund | ceceando | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | ceceado | ceceada | |||||
plural | ceceados | ceceadas | |||||
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 | ceceo | ceceastú ceceásvos |
cecea | ceceamos | ceceáis | cecean | |
imperfect | ceceaba | ceceabas | ceceaba | ceceábamos | ceceabais | ceceaban | |
preterite | ceceé | ceceaste | ceceó | ceceamos | ceceasteis | cecearon | |
future | cecearé | cecearás | ceceará | cecearemos | cecearéis | cecearán | |
conditional | cecearía | cecearías | cecearía | cecearíamos | cecearíais | cecearían | |
subjunctive | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | cecee | ceceestú ceceésvos2 |
cecee | ceceemos | ceceéis | ceceen | |
imperfect (ra) |
ceceara | cecearas | ceceara | ceceáramos | cecearais | cecearan | |
imperfect (se) |
cecease | ceceases | cecease | ceceásemos | ceceaseis | ceceasen | |
future1 | ceceare | ceceares | ceceare | ceceáremos | ceceareis | cecearen | |
imperative | — | tú vos |
usted | nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ustedes | |
affirmative | ceceatú ceceávos |
cecee | ceceemos | cecead | ceceen | ||
negative | no cecees | no cecee | no ceceemos | no ceceéis | no ceceen |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Neapolitan: zecchiare
Further reading
[edit]- “cecear”, 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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- Portuguese lemmas
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- Portuguese verbs ending in -ar
- Portuguese verbs with e becoming ei when stressed
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/aɾ
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