descrever

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Galician

Verb

descrever (first-person singular present descrevo, first-person singular preterite descrevim or descrevi, past participle descrito, reintegrationist norm)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of describir

Conjugation

References

  • descrever” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin describō (dēscrībere).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /des.kɾeˈve(ʁ)/ [des.kɾeˈve(h)], /d͡ʒis.kɾeˈve(ʁ)/ [d͡ʒis.kɾeˈve(h)]
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /des.kɾeˈve(ɾ)/, /d͡ʒis.kɾeˈve(ɾ)/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /deʃ.kɾeˈve(ʁ)/ [deʃ.kɾeˈve(χ)], /d͡ʒiʃ.kɾeˈve(ʁ)/ [d͡ʒiʃ.kɾeˈve(χ)]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /des.kɾeˈve(ɻ)/
 

Verb

descrever (first-person singular present descrevo, first-person singular preterite descrevi, past participle descrito)

  1. (transitive) to describe (to represent in words; to give an account of)
  2. (transitive) to describe; to delineate (to move in a way that the path forms a given shape)
  3. (taxonomy, transitive) to describe (to introduce a taxon to science)
  4. (mathematics, transitive) to describe (to give rise to a geometrical structure)

Conjugation