adoptar

From Latin adoptāre, present active infinitive of adoptō.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ə.dopˈta/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ə.dupˈta/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a.dopˈtaɾ/

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• Homophone: adoptà
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

adoptar (first-person singular present adopto, past participle adoptat)

1. (transitive) to adopt

• adopció

• “adoptar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• portada, tapador

• IPA^(key): /ɐðɔpˈtaɾ/

adoptar (first-person singular present, first-person singular preterite, past participle tado)

1. to adopt (to take in and raise as one's own)

• “adoptar” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Borrowed from Esperanto adopti, English adopt, French adopter, German adoptieren, Italian adottare, Spanish adoptar, ultimately from Latin adoptō.

• IPA^(key): /adopˈtar/

adoptar (present tense adoptas, past tense adoptis, future tense adoptos, imperative adoptez, conditional adoptus)

1. (transitive) to adopt

• adopto

adoptar (first-person singular present adopto, first-person singular preterite adoptei, past participle adoptado)

1. Superseded spelling of adotar. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and as an alternative spelling in Portugal.)

• adoptável

From Latin adoptāre, present active infinitive of adoptō. Cognate with English adopt.

• IPA^(key): /adobˈtaɾ/ [a.ð̞oβ̞ˈt̪aɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧dop‧tar

adoptar (first-person singular present adopto, first-person singular preterite adopté, past participle adoptado)

1. (transitive, law) to adopt (legally take in a child from other parents)

   Synonyms: ahijar, prohijar

2. (transitive) to adopt (select)
3. (transitive) to take (e.g. steps, measurements, action, position or view)

   adoptar una postura ― to take a stand/position

   adoptar medidas ― to take steps/measures

• “adoptar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014