amonestar

From Late Latin or Vulgar Latin *admonestrāre, from Classical Latin admoneō (“remind, warn”), from ad + moneō (“warn, advise”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ə.mu.nəsˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ə.mo.nəsˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.mo.nesˈtaɾ]

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amonestar (first-person singular present amonesto, first-person singular preterite amonestí, past participle amonestat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. (transitive) to admonish, reprimand
2. (transitive, sports) to book
3. (transitive) to publish the banns of

• “amonestar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “amonestar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “amonestar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “amonestar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Late Latin or Vulgar Latin *admonesstrāre (compare Old French amonester, Portuguese admoestar), from Classical Latin admoneō (“remind, warn”), from ad + moneō (“warn, advise”).

• IPA^(key): /amonesˈtaɾ/ [a.mo.nesˈt̪aɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧mo‧nes‧tar

amonestar (first-person singular present amonesto, first-person singular preterite amonesté, past participle amonestado)

1. to warn; to reprimand; to admonish

• “amonestar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024