ameaçar

Betekenis (Engels)

1. to threaten (to make a threat against someone; to use threats)
2. to endanger, menace
3. (catenative) to portend, threaten

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/a.me.aˈsa(ʁ)/

Etimologie (Engels)

From Old Galician-Portuguese amẽaçar, a variant of mẽaçar, either from mẽaça (“threat”) + -ar, or from a hypothetical Vulgar Latin *admināciāre (“to threaten”) < *mināciāre (“threaten”), from minācia (“threat”), from Latin mināciae. Cognate with English menace. Compare Catalan and Occitan amenaçar, French menacer, Galician ameazar, Italian minacciare, Romanian amenința, Sicilian amminazzari, Spanish amenazar.

Sinne

E pare de ameaçar aquele garoto .

And stop threatening that boy.