different between combated vs combater

English

Alternative forms

• combatted

Verb

combated

1. simple past tense and past participle of combat

English

Etymology

combat +? -er

Noun

combater (plural combaters)

1. One who combats.

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese combater (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *combattere, present active infinitive of *combatt?, from Latin cum + battu?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /komba?te?/

Verb

combater (first-person singular present combato, first-person singular preterite combatín, past participle combatido)

1. to combat
   • 1455, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 322:

     Ano de LV, sábado á noyte, que eran viinte dias do dito mes de setenbro, aas noue horas da noyte, foy conbatido por força de armas os paaços et curral do bispo d'Ourense et a hua ora, sobre médea noyte, foy entrado a poder de armas et non foy ende nehuún ome morto, saluo foron feridos dos do conçello ata noue ou des personas et dos do curral tres o quatro de seetadas, et en outro dia, o domingo, combateron a torre bella con Roy de Caldellas et con Johán de Canba et outro omee et puxaron de çima da torre hun canto e deu en hua perna Afonso da Proua et morreu dela.

     Year of 55, Saturday night, twenty days of said month of September, at nine hours at night; it was combatted forcibly with weapons the palace and yard of the Bishop of Ourense, and at certain time, around midnight, it was forcibly penetrated, but no man was killed then, but nine or ten persons of the Council were wounded, and of the yard three or four of arrow shots; and the other day, sunday, they combatted the old tower with Roi de Caldelas and with Xoán de Camba and with another man, and they threw from the top of the tower a stone which hit Afonso da Proba in a leg, and he died of that

   Synonyms: batallar, guerrear, lidar, loitar

Conjugation

Related terms

• combate

Further reading

• “combater” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

References

• “combater” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “conbat” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “combater” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “combater” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *combattere, present active infinitive of *combatt?, from Latin cum + battu?.

Verb

combater (first-person singular present indicative combato, past participle combatido)

1. to fight; to combat

Conjugation

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:combater.

Derived terms

• combatente

Related terms

• bater

Verb

combater

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of combater
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of combater

Further reading

• “combater” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913