aparecer

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese aparecer (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin appārēscere, present active infinitive of appārēscō (“begin to appear”), from Latin appareō.

• IPA^(key): [apaɾeˈθeɾ], (western) [apaɾeˈseɾ]

aparecer (first-person singular present aparezco, first-person singular preterite aparecín, past participle aparecido)

1. to appear

• Note: aparec- are changed to aparez- before back vowels (a, o).

• “aparecer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “apare” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “aparecer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “aparecer” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “aparecer” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Old Portuguese aparecer, from Late Latin appārēscere (“begin to appear”), from Latin appāreō.

aparecer (first-person singular present apareço, first-person singular preterite apareci, past participle aparecido)

1. (intransitive) to appear
   • 1971, “Esperar pra ver”, in Cartão Postal, performed by Evinha:

     Mas às vezes a coisa assim acontece / Aparece, parece, para, aparece

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

2. (transitive with em) to attend (an event); to show up [at]
3. inflection of aparecer:
   1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive
   2. first/third-person singular personal infinitive

For quotations using this term, see Citations:aparecer.

Inherited from Late Latin appārēscere, inchoative of Latin appārēre (“to appear”).

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /apaɾeˈθeɾ/ [a.pa.ɾeˈθeɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /apaɾeˈseɾ/ [a.pa.ɾeˈseɾ]

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• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: a‧pa‧re‧cer

aparecer (first-person singular present aparezco, first-person singular preterite aparecí, past participle aparecido)

1. (intransitive, reflexive) to appear, to turn up, to pop up, to come up

   Synonym: surgir

   Antonym: desaparecer

   apareció de la nada ― it came out of nowhere

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