# almorzar
## Asturian
### Verb

almorzar (first-person singular indicative present almorzo, past participle almorzáu)
* to have breakfast

#### Conjugation
## Galician
### Alternative forms

* almorçar (Medieval and Middle Galician spelling, reintegrationist)

### Etymology

Attested since the 13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from admordeō (“I bite or gnaw at or into”). Cognate with Portuguese almoçar and Spanish almorzar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /almoɾˈθaɾ/ [ɑl.moɾˈθaɾ]
* IPA: (standard) /almoɾˈθaɾ/ [ɑl.moɾˈθaɾ]
* IPA: (seseo) /almoɾˈsaɾ/ [ɑl.moɾˈsaɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Hyphenation: al‧mor‧zar

### Verb

almorzar (first-person singular present almorzo, first-person singular preterite almorcei, past participle almorzado)
* to breakfast
* to lunch, to dine
** c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 627:Calade, conde Suer Gonçaluez, que bẽ semella enas uossas parauoas que ia oge almorçastes, ca mays semellã parauoas de beuedo que non de cordoShut up, count Suer González, because through you words it seems as if you already dined today, because they seem the words of a drunkard rather than that of a sound man

#### Related terms

* almorzo

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “almorçar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “almorç”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “almorzar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “almorzar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “almorzar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Spanish
### Etymology

From almuerzo +‎ -ar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Spain) /almoɾˈθaɾ/ [al.moɾˈθaɾ]
* IPA: (Latin America, Philippines) /almoɾˈsaɾ/ [al.moɾˈsaɾ]
* Audio (Peru):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: al‧mor‧zar

### Verb

almorzar (first-person singular present almuerzo, first-person singular preterite almorcé, past participle almorzado)
* (intransitive) to eat lunch
* (transitive) to eat for lunch

#### 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.

#### Descendants

* → Tagalog: almusal

### Further reading

* “almorzar”, 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