esforzar

From Old Galician-Portuguese esforçar, from Vulgar Latin *exfortiāre, ultimately from Latin fortis (“strong”).

• IPA^(key): [esfoɾˈθaɾ], (western) [esfoɾˈsaɾ]

esforzar (first-person singular present esforzo, first-person singular preterite esforcei, past participle esforzado)

1. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to encourage; to exert oneself
2. (transitive) to force
3. (transitive) to rape
4. (transitive, dated) to encourage, strengthen
5. (intransitive, dated) to take courage, gather strength

• esforzo

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

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *exfortiāre, ultimately from Latin fortis (“strong”). Or, by surface analysis, es- +‎ forzar.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /esfoɾˈθaɾ/ [es.foɾˈθaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /esfoɾˈsaɾ/ [es.foɾˈsaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: es‧for‧zar

esforzar (first-person singular present esfuerzo, first-person singular preterite esforcé, past participle esforzado)

1. (transitive) to encourage
2. (transitive) to strain, struggle
3. (reflexive) to strive
4. (reflexive) to attempt

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