# auscultar
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin auscultāre. Doublet of escoltar, which was inherited.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [əws.kulˈta]
* IPA: (Valencia) [aws.kulˈtaɾ]
* Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

### Verb

auscultar (first-person singular present ausculto, first-person singular preterite auscultí, past participle auscultat)
* (medicine) to auscultate (to listen to internal organs)

#### Related terms

* auscultació

### Further reading

* “auscultar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin auscultāre (“to listen”). Doublet of escutar.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /aws.kuwˈta(ʁ)/ [aʊ̯s.kuʊ̯ˈta(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /aws.kuwˈta(ʁ)/ [aʊ̯s.kuʊ̯ˈta(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /aws.kuwˈta(ɾ)/ [aʊ̯s.kuʊ̯ˈta(ɾ)]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /awʃ.kuwˈta(ʁ)/ [aʊ̯ʃ.kuʊ̯ˈta(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /aws.kuwˈta(ɻ)/ [aʊ̯s.kuʊ̯ˈta(ɻ)]
* (Portugal) IPA: /awʃ.kulˈtaɾ/ [awʃ.kuɫˈtaɾ], /o(w)ʃ.kulˈtaɾ/ [o(w)ʃ.kuɫˈtaɾ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /awʃ.kulˈtaɾ/ [awʃ.kuɫˈtaɾ], /o(w)ʃ.kulˈtaɾ/ [o(w)ʃ.kuɫˈtaɾ]
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /awʃ.kulˈtaɾ/ [awʃ.kuɫˈtaɾ], /owʃ.kulˈtaɾ/ [owʃ.kuɫˈtaɾ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /awʃ.kulˈta.ɾi/ [awʃ.kuɫˈta.ɾi], /oʃ.kulˈta.ɾi/ [oʃ.kuɫˈta.ɾi]
* Hyphenation: aus‧cul‧tar

### Verb

auscultar (first-person singular present ausculto, first-person singular preterite auscultei, past participle auscultado)
* (medicine) to auscultate (to listen to internal organs)
** 2013, Patricia Potter, Anne Griffin Perry, Martha Keene Elkin, Procedimentos e Intervenções de Enfermagem, Elsevier Brasil, →ISBN, page 136:Se você auscultar ruídos adventícios, faça o paciente tossir. Ouça mais uma vez com o estetoscópio para determinar se o som abafou com a tosse.If you auscultate adventitious noises, make the patient cough. Listen again with the stethoscope to determine if the sound has been muffled by the cough.
* (figuratively) to examine
    Synonym: examinar
* (figuratively) to sound out (to question and listen attentively in order to discover a person's opinion, intent, or preference)
** 2011, Manuel da Silva Ramos, Três Vidas ao Espelho, Leya, →ISBN, page 254:... estilo de vida boémio e tabernal para auscultar e consciencializar as classes mais desfavorecidas que continuavam a gostar de vinho e de chalaça.... bohemian and tabernacle lifestyle to sound out to and raise awareness among the poorer classes who still liked wine and chalaça.

#### Conjugation

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

#### Related terms

* escutar

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin auscultāre (“to listen”). Compare the inherited doublet escuchar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /auskulˈtaɾ/ [au̯s.kul̪ˈt̪aɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: aus‧cul‧tar

### Verb

auscultar (first-person singular present ausculto, first-person singular preterite ausculté, past participle auscultado)
* (medicine) to auscultate (to listen to internal organs)
* to examine; to probe; to sound out

#### 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

* auscultamiento

#### Related terms

* auscultación

### Further reading

* “auscultar”, 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