acordar

1. (intransitive) to awake; to wake up; to regain consciousness
2. (intransitive) to realize, to become aware
3. (intransitive) to change one's mind
4. (pronominal, transitive) to remember
5. (impersonal, intransitive) to be remembered; to come to mind
6. (transitive) to accord, agree

Opposite of

adormecer, esquecer

Pronounced as (IPA)

[akoɾˈðaɾ]

Etymology

Inherited from Latin: cordatus

In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese acordar, from Vulgar Latin *accordāre. Sense of "to wake up" was possibly influenced by cordo (“judicious, prudent”), from Latin cordatus (“wise, prudent”).