# aflorar
## Catalan
### Etymology

From a- +‎ flor (“flower”) +‎ -ar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ə.fluˈɾa]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ə.floˈɾa]
* IPA: (Valencia) [a.floˈɾaɾ]

### Verb

aflorar (first-person singular present afloro, first-person singular preterite aflorí, past participle aflorat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/
* to emerge, to appear
** 2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 10, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:Però l'espectacle va fer que aflorés la part més sàdica d'en Batís.But the spectacle caused Batís's most sadistic part to emerge.
** 2017 January 4, Agustí Sala, “¿Quants multimilionaris hi ha a Catalunya?”, in El Periódico‎:Un dels motius d'aquest augment de declarants de gamma alta va ser l'amnistia fiscal del 2012, que ha fet aflorar actius ocults; i també la posterior obligació de declarar béns i actius a l'exterior.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Conjugation
### Further reading

* “aflorar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “aflorar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “aflorar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “aflorar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From a- +‎ flor +‎ -ar.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /a.floˈɾa(ʁ)/ [a.floˈɾa(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /a.floˈɾa(ʁ)/ [a.floˈɾa(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /a.floˈɾa(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /a.floˈɾa(ʁ)/ [a.floˈɾa(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /a.floˈɾa(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɐ.fluˈɾaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɐ.fluˈɾaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ɐ.fluˈɾa.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: a‧flo‧rar

### Verb

aflorar (first-person singular present afloro, first-person singular preterite aflorei, past participle aflorado)
* (intransitive) to emerge
* (intransitive) to outcrop

#### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese.

### Further reading

* “aflorar”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
* “aflorar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
* “aflorar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
* “aflorar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* “aflorar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

From a- +‎ flor (“flower”) +‎ -ar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /afloˈɾaɾ/ [a.floˈɾaɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: a‧flo‧rar

### Verb

aflorar (first-person singular present afloro, first-person singular preterite afloré, past participle aflorado)
* (intransitive) to emerge, appear, surface
* to sift

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

#### Derived terms

* afloramiento

### Further reading

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