# condensar
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin condēnsāre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [kun.dənˈsa]
* IPA: (Balearic) [kon.dənˈsa]
* IPA: (Valencia) [kon.denˈsaɾ]

### Verb

condensar (first-person singular present condenso, first-person singular preterite condensí, past participle condensat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/
* (transitive) to condense

#### Related terms

* condensació

### Further reading

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

## Galician
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin condenso, condensare.

### Verb

condensar (first-person singular present condenso, first-person singular preterite condensei, past participle condensado)
* (transitive) to condense

#### Conjugation

$^1$Less recommended.

#### Related terms

* condensación

### Further reading

* “condensar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
* “condensar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin condēnsāre.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /kõ.dẽˈsa(ʁ)/ [kõ.dẽˈsa(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /kõ.dẽˈsa(ʁ)/ [kõ.dẽˈsa(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /kõ.dẽˈsa(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /kõ.dẽˈsa(ʁ)/ [kõ.dẽˈsa(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /kõ.dẽˈsa(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /kõ.dẽˈsaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /kõ.dẽˈsaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /kõ.dẽˈsa.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: con‧den‧sar

### Verb

condensar (first-person singular present condenso, first-person singular preterite condensei, past participle condensado)
* to condense
* to pile up

#### Conjugation

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

#### Related terms

* condensação
* denso

### Further reading

* “condensar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin condēnsāre. Compare the inherited doublet condesar (“save, economize; reserve, set aside”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kondenˈsaɾ/ [kõn̪.d̪ẽnˈsaɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: con‧den‧sar

### Verb

condensar (first-person singular present condenso, first-person singular preterite condensé, past participle condensado)
* (transitive) to condense

#### 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

* leche condensada

#### Related terms

* condensación

### References

* ↑ “condesar”, 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
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “condensar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

### Further reading

* “condensar”, 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