cancelar
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cancellāre (“to make like a lattice, to cover with a lattice, to cancel”), ultimately from cancer (“lattice, grid”), from Proto-Indo-European *geng- (“lump”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /kɐ̃.seˈla(ʁ)/ [kɐ̃.seˈla(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /kɐ̃.seˈla(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /kɐ̃.seˈla(ʁ)/ [kɐ̃.seˈla(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /kɐ̃.seˈla(ɻ)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐ̃.sɨˈlaɾ/
- Hyphenation: can‧ce‧lar
Verb
cancelar (first-person singular present cancelo, first-person singular preterite cancelei, past participle cancelado)
- (transitive) to call off (cancel)
- Synonyms: anular, parar
Conjugation
Conjugation of cancelar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
| Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First-person (eu) | Second-person (tu) | Third-person (ele / ela / você) | First-person (nós) | Second-person (vós) | Third-person (eles / elas / vocês) | |
| Infinitive | ||||||
| Impersonal | cancelar | |||||
| Personal | cancelar | cancelares | cancelar | cancelarmos | cancelardes | cancelarem |
| Gerund | ||||||
| cancelando | ||||||
| Past participle | ||||||
| Masculine | cancelado | cancelados | ||||
| Feminine | cancelada | canceladas | ||||
| Indicative | ||||||
| Present | cancelo | cancelas | cancela | cancelamos | cancelais | cancelam |
| Imperfect | cancelava | cancelavas | cancelava | cancelávamos | canceláveis | cancelavam |
| Preterite | cancelei | cancelaste | cancelou | cancelamos1, cancelámos2 | cancelastes | cancelaram |
| Pluperfect | cancelara | cancelaras | cancelara | canceláramos | canceláreis | cancelaram |
| Future | cancelarei | cancelarás | cancelará | cancelaremos | cancelareis | cancelarão |
| Conditional | ||||||
| cancelaria | cancelarias | cancelaria | cancelaríamos | cancelaríeis | cancelariam | |
| Subjunctive | ||||||
| Present | cancele | canceles | cancele | cancelemos | canceleis | cancelem |
| Imperfect | cancelasse | cancelasses | cancelasse | cancelássemos | cancelásseis | cancelassem |
| Future | cancelar | cancelares | cancelar | cancelarmos | cancelardes | cancelarem |
| Imperative | ||||||
| Affirmative | cancela | cancele | cancelemos | cancelai | cancelem | |
| Negative (não) | não canceles | não cancele | não cancelemos | não canceleis | não cancelem | |
1Brazil.
2Portugal.
Related terms
- cancelado
- cancelamento
Further reading
- “cancelar” in Dicionário inFormal.
- “cancelar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “cancelar” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
- “cancelar” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
- “cancelar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin cancellārius, from Latin cancelli, from cancer.
Noun
cancelar m (plural cancelari)
- chancellor
Declension
Declension of cancelar
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) cancelar | cancelarul | (niște) cancelari | cancelarii |
| genitive/dative | (unui) cancelar | cancelarului | (unor) cancelari | cancelarilor |
| vocative | cancelarule | cancelarilor | ||
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin cancellō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /kanθeˈlaɾ/ [kãn̟.θeˈlaɾ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /kanseˈlaɾ/ [kãn.seˈlaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: can‧ce‧lar
Verb
cancelar (first-person singular present cancelo, first-person singular preterite cancelé, past participle cancelado)
- (transitive) to cancel, call off
- (transitive, neologism) to cancel (a person deemed unacceptable)
- (transitive, finance) to liquidate (a debt)
- (transitive, Ecuador, Chile, Peru) to pay
Conjugation
Conjugation of cancelar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
| infinitive | cancelar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | cancelando | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | cancelado | cancelada | |||||
| plural | cancelados | canceladas | |||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
| indicative | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | cancelo | cancelastú cancelásvos | cancela | cancelamos | canceláis | cancelan | |
| imperfect | cancelaba | cancelabas | cancelaba | cancelábamos | cancelabais | cancelaban | |
| preterite | cancelé | cancelaste | canceló | cancelamos | cancelasteis | cancelaron | |
| future | cancelaré | cancelarás | cancelará | cancelaremos | cancelaréis | cancelarán | |
| conditional | cancelaría | cancelarías | cancelaría | cancelaríamos | cancelaríais | cancelarían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | cancele | cancelestú cancelésvos2 | cancele | cancelemos | canceléis | cancelen | |
| imperfect (ra) | cancelara | cancelaras | cancelara | canceláramos | cancelarais | cancelaran | |
| imperfect (se) | cancelase | cancelases | cancelase | cancelásemos | cancelaseis | cancelasen | |
| future1 | cancelare | cancelares | cancelare | canceláremos | cancelareis | cancelaren | |
| imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
| affirmative | cancelatú cancelávos | cancele | cancelemos | cancelad | cancelen | ||
| negative | no canceles | no cancele | no cancelemos | no canceléis | no cancelen | ||
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Selected combined forms of cancelar
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
| with infinitive cancelar | |||||||
| dative | cancelarme | cancelarte | cancelarle, cancelarse | cancelarnos | cancelaros | cancelarles, cancelarse | |
| accusative | cancelarme | cancelarte | cancelarlo, cancelarla, cancelarse | cancelarnos | cancelaros | cancelarlos, cancelarlas, cancelarse | |
| with gerund cancelando | |||||||
| dative | cancelándome | cancelándote | cancelándole, cancelándose | cancelándonos | cancelándoos | cancelándoles, cancelándose | |
| accusative | cancelándome | cancelándote | cancelándolo, cancelándola, cancelándose | cancelándonos | cancelándoos | cancelándolos, cancelándolas, cancelándose | |
| with informal second-person singular tú imperative cancela | |||||||
| dative | cancélame | cancélate | cancélale | cancélanos | not used | cancélales | |
| accusative | cancélame | cancélate | cancélalo, cancélala | cancélanos | not used | cancélalos, cancélalas | |
| with informal second-person singular vos imperative cancelá | |||||||
| dative | cancelame | cancelate | cancelale | cancelanos | not used | cancelales | |
| accusative | cancelame | cancelate | cancelalo, cancelala | cancelanos | not used | cancelalos, cancelalas | |
| with formal second-person singular imperative cancele | |||||||
| dative | cancéleme | not used | cancélele, cancélese | cancélenos | not used | cancéleles | |
| accusative | cancéleme | not used | cancélelo, cancélela, cancélese | cancélenos | not used | cancélelos, cancélelas | |
| with first-person plural imperative cancelemos | |||||||
| dative | not used | cancelémoste | cancelémosle | cancelémonos | cancelémoos | cancelémosles | |
| accusative | not used | cancelémoste | cancelémoslo, cancelémosla | cancelémonos | cancelémoos | cancelémoslos, cancelémoslas | |
| with informal second-person plural imperative cancelad | |||||||
| dative | canceladme | not used | canceladle | canceladnos | cancelaos | canceladles | |
| accusative | canceladme | not used | canceladlo, canceladla | canceladnos | cancelaos | canceladlos, canceladlas | |
| with formal second-person plural imperative cancelen | |||||||
| dative | cancélenme | not used | cancélenle | cancélennos | not used | cancélenles, cancélense | |
| accusative | cancélenme | not used | cancélenlo, cancélenla | cancélennos | not used | cancélenlos, cancélenlas, cancélense | |
Further reading
- “cancelar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014