FromArabicالسِّقَاط(as-siqāṭ).

acicate m (pluralacicates)

1. spur(implement for prodding a horse)

   Synonym:espora

2. (figuratively)incentive,spur(anything that inspires or motivates)

   Synonym:incentivo

• acicatar

• “acicate”, inDicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam,2008–2025

acicate

1. inflection ofacicatar:
   1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
   2. third-personsingularimperative

Borrowed fromAndalusian Arabicالسِّقَاط(as-siqáṭ). ComparePortugueseacicate.

• IPA^(key): (Spain)/aθiˈkate/[a.θiˈka.t̪e]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines)/asiˈkate/[a.siˈka.t̪e]
• Rhymes:-ate
• Syllabification:a‧ci‧ca‧te

acicate m (pluralacicates)

1. spur(implement for prodding a horse)

   Synonym:espuela

2. (figuratively)incentive,spur(anything that inspires or motivates)

   Synonym:incentivo

   • 1997,Roberto Bolaño, “Henri Simon Leprince”, inLlamadas telefónicas [Last Evenings on Earth]:

     Su presencia, su fragilidad, su espantosa soberanía, a algunos les sirve deacicate o de recordatorio.

     (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)

• “acicate”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

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