encantar

Likely a Semi-learned borrowing from Latin incantāre. By surface analysis, en- +‎ cantar.

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

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

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

• In the sense translated as 'love', subject and object are reversed from those of to love. That is, the subject of encantar is the thing that is loved and the indirect object is the person loving it. As the object is indirect, a third-person subject is supplemented with the preposition a, or substituted by pronouns li/els.
• M'encanta l'hivern. — I love winter a lot. (literally to me winter loves a lot)

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• 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, 2024
• “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 Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), 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

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• cantar

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), 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

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• cantar

From Latin incantāre, 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

   Synonym: gustar mucho

   Me encantan los mariscos.

   I love seafood.

   (literally, “Seafood pleases me.”)

4. to bewitch

   Synonym: embrujar

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• prendar

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