# incentivar
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [in.sən.tiˈβa]
* IPA: (Balearic) [in.sən.tiˈva]
* IPA: (Valencia) [in.sen.tiˈvaɾ]
* Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
* Hyphenation: in‧cen‧ti‧var
* Homophone: incentivà (except Valencian)

### Verb

incentivar (first-person singular present incentivo, first-person singular preterite incentiví, past participle incentivat)
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
    Antonym: desincentivar

#### Further reading

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

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /inθentiˈbaɾ/ [in̪.θen̪.t̪iˈβ̞aɾ]
* IPA: (standard) /inθentiˈbaɾ/ [in̪.θen̪.t̪iˈβ̞aɾ]
* IPA: (seseo) /insentiˈbaɾ/ [in.sen̪.t̪iˈβ̞aɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Hyphenation: in‧cen‧ti‧var

### Verb

incentivar (first-person singular present incentivo, first-person singular preterite incentivei, past participle incentivado)
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
    Antonym: desincentivar

#### Conjugation

$^1$Less recommended.

#### Further reading

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

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From incentivo +‎ -ar, from Late Latin incentivum.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ĩ.sẽ.t͡ʃiˈva(ʁ)/ [ĩ.sẽ.t͡ʃiˈva(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ĩ.sẽ.t͡ʃiˈva(ʁ)/ [ĩ.sẽ.t͡ʃiˈva(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ĩ.sẽ.t͡ʃiˈva(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ĩ.sẽ.t͡ʃiˈva(ʁ)/ [ĩ.sẽ.t͡ʃiˈva(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ĩ.sẽ.t͡ʃiˈva(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ĩ.sẽ.tiˈvaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ĩ.sẽ.tiˈvaɾ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ĩ.sẽ.tiˈbaɾ/ [ĩ.sẽ.tiˈβaɾ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ĩ.sẽ.tiˈva.ɾi/

### Verb

incentivar (first-person singular present incentivo, first-person singular preterite incentivei, past participle incentivado)
* to provide incentive, to incentivize; to foster, to encourage, to motivate
    Antonym: desincentivar

#### Conjugation

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

## Spanish
### Etymology

From incentivo +‎ -ar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Spain) /inθentiˈbaɾ/ [ĩn̟.θẽn̪.t̪iˈβ̞aɾ]
* IPA: (Latin America, Philippines) /insentiˈbaɾ/ [ĩn.sẽn̪.t̪iˈβ̞aɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: in‧cen‧ti‧var

### Verb

incentivar (first-person singular present incentivo, first-person singular preterite incentivé, past participle incentivado)
* (transitive) to foster, to provide incentive, to incentivize, to encourage
    Synonym: fomentar
    Antonym: desincentivar

#### 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

* desincentivar
* incentivación

### Further reading

* “incentivar”, 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