acordar

Meaning

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

Pronounced as (IPA)

[akoɾˈðaɾ]

Etymology

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”).