comenzar

Meaning

to begin, to commence

Frequency

B1
Hyphenated as
co‧men‧zar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/komenˈθaɾ/
Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish començar, from Vulgar Latin *cominitiāre, from com- + Latin initiāre. Did not show diphthongized conjugations in early medieval texts; their later appearance seems to reflect analogy with the synonym empezar.

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