encantar

From Latin incantāre, present active infinitive of incantō, possibly taken as a semi-learned term. Equivalent to en- +‎ cantar.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /əŋ.kənˈta/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /eŋ.kanˈtaɾ/
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

encantar (first-person singular present encanto, past participle encantat)

1. to enchant, charm, delight
2. to love, enjoy
3. to bewitch, put a spell on

In the sense of 'love', the person loving is used as the direct object, and the person/thing loved as the subject.

• encantador
• encanteri

• cantar

• “encantar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “encantar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “encantar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “encantar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old Portuguese encantar, from Latin incantāre, present active infinitive of incantō, possibly taken as a semi-learned term. Equivalent to en- +‎ cantar.

encantar (first-person singular present encanto, first-person singular preterite encantei, past participle encantado)

1. to enchant, charm
2. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of encantar
3. first/third-person singular personal infinitive of encantar

• cantar

From Old Portuguese encantar, from Latin incantāre, possibly taken as a semi-learned term. By surface analysis, en- +‎ cantar.

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.kɐ̃.ˈta(h)/
• Hyphenation: en‧can‧tar

encantar (first-person singular present encanto, first-person singular preterite encantei, past participle encantado)

1. to enchant, charm
2. to delight
3. to bewitch, put a spell on
4. inflection of encantar:
   1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive
   2. first/third-person singular personal infinitive

• cantar

From Latin incantāre, present active infinitive of incantō, possibly taken as a semi-learned term. Equivalent to en- +‎ cantar.

• IPA^(key): /enkanˈtaɾ/ [ẽŋ.kãn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: en‧can‧tar

encantar (first-person singular present encanto, first-person singular preterite encanté, past participle encantado)

1. to delight, be delighting to, to charm, enchant
2. to please
3. (with reversed subject and object) to like very much, love, enjoy

   Me encantan los mariscos.

   I love seafood.

   (literally, “Seafood pleases me.”)

   Synonym: gustar mucho

4. to bewitch

   Synonym: embrujar

• prendar

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