atrever

atrever (first-person singular present atrevo, first-person singular preterite atrevín, past participle atrevido)
atrever (first-person singular present atrevo, first-person singular preterite atrevim or atrevi, past participle atrevido, reintegrationist norm)

1. (pronominal) to dare

   Synonyms: afoutar, ousar

• “atrever”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• “atrever” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

From Old Galician-Portuguese atrever, from Latin attribuere. Doublet of atribuir.

• Hyphenation: a‧tre‧ver

atrever (first-person singular present atrevo, first-person singular preterite atrevi, past participle atrevido)

1. (pronominal) to dare

   Não te atrevas! ― Don't you dare!

   Como te atreves? ― How dare you?

• atrevido (adjective)

Inherited from Latin attribuō (“associate, assign, allot, appoint”), from Latin tribuō (“grant, yield”). Doublet of atribuir (“attribute”). Compare English attribute. Also cf. Old Spanish trever, which was the normal form during the Middle Ages. Cognate with Arabic إجترء (“to dare”).

• IPA^(key): /atɾeˈbeɾ/ [a.t̪ɾeˈβ̞eɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: a‧tre‧ver

atrever (first-person singular present atrevo, first-person singular preterite atreví, past participle atrevido)

1. (obsolete) to embolden
2. (pronominal, with a) to dare

   Synonym: osar

   No te atrevas a mentirme.

   Don't you dare lie to me.

   No me atrevería jamás a contradecirla siempre que ella estuviera en un lugar desde el que aún me pudiera escuchar.

   I would never dare to contradict her while she was somewhere she could still hear me.

• “atrever”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28