acidente

See also: açidente

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.siˈdẽ.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.siˈdẽ.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.siˈdẽ.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.siˈdẽ.tɨ/ [ɐ.siˈðẽ.tɨ]

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• Rhymes: -ẽti
• Hyphenation: a‧ci‧den‧te

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin accidentem, present active participle of accidō (“happen”); from ad (“to”) + cadō (“fall”); respectively from Proto-Indo-European *ád (“near, at”) and *ḱad- (“to fall”).

Noun

acidente m (plural acidentes)

1. accident (unexpected event with negative consequences)

   Synonyms: catástrofe, desastre

2. (geology) accident (irregular surface)

Derived terms

• acidentação
• acidentado
• acidental
• acidentar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

acidente

1. inflection of acidentar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “acidente”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “acidente”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025