acelerado

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.se.leˈɾa.du/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.se.leˈɾa.du/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.se.leˈɾa.do/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.sɨ.lɨˈɾa.du/ [ɐ.sɨ.lɨˈɾa.ðu]

• Hyphenation: a‧ce‧le‧ra‧do

Adjective

acelerado (feminine acelerada, masculine plural acelerados, feminine plural aceleradas, comparable, comparative mais acelerado, superlative o mais acelerado or aceleradíssimo)

1. accelerated
2. fast, quick, rapid
   • 2003, J. K. Rowling, Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix, Rocco, page 434:

     O coração de Harry batia acelerado agora.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Participle

acelerado (feminine acelerada, masculine plural acelerados, feminine plural aceleradas)

1. past participle of acelerar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /aθeleˈɾado/ [a.θe.leˈɾa.ð̞o]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /aseleˈɾado/ [a.se.leˈɾa.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: a‧ce‧le‧ra‧do

Adjective

acelerado (feminine acelerada, masculine plural acelerados, feminine plural aceleradas)

1. accelerated
2. (slang) very excited; wound up; hyper
3. (colloquial, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina) half-drunk

Derived terms

• movimiento uniformemente acelerado

 

Participle

acelerado (feminine acelerada, masculine plural acelerados, feminine plural aceleradas)

1. past participle of acelerar

Further reading

• “acelerado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28
• “acelerado” in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, 2010