🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

Simplificar

Pronunciation / Transliteration: sĩplifikaʁ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Simplify/ˈsɪm.plɪ.faɪ/
verbCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #1450 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Precisamos simplificar as instruções para os usuários."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To make something simpler or easier to understand.

    "The teacher tried to simplify the complex topic for her students."
  2. 2

    To reduce to a simpler form.

    "The software can simplify the process of data analysis."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin adjective 'simplex' (simple) combined with the Latin root 'facere' (to make). It entered Middle English via Old French in the 15th century, evolving from its original alchemical sense of separating substances into simple components to its modern general meaning of making things easier to understand or do.

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