averiguar
Asturian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- aviriguar (Pravia)
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]averiguar (first-person singular indicative present averiguo, past participle averiguáu)
- to figure out
- Synonyms: pescanciar, pescudar
- (reflexive) to agree on something
- Synonyms: casar, avenir, combalachar
Conjugation
[edit]References
[edit]- “averiguar” in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana. Xosé Lluis García Arias. →ISBN.
Old Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Late Latin vērificō, vērificāre (“present as if true; verify, prove true”), a semi-learned term. More in the entry of the modern descendant.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]averiguar
- present something as true, make something seem true
- 1251, anonymous, Calila e Dimna 12:[1]
- Ca el omne faldrido, et sabio, et manso, si quisiere desfazer la verdat et averiguar la mentira, a las vezes fazerlo ía así commo el buen pintor que pinta las imágenes en la pared que semejan a omne que sale della.
- Because a clever man, who is wise and of calm temper, if he intends to undo truth and present a lie as if true, he will do it then like a good painter painting such good images on a wall that it seems a man is coming out of it.
- Ca el omne faldrido, et sabio, et manso, si quisiere desfazer la verdat et averiguar la mentira, a las vezes fazerlo ía así commo el buen pintor que pinta las imágenes en la pared que semejan a omne que sale della.
- verify something, determine whether it is true
Descendants
[edit]- Spanish: averiguar
References
[edit]- ^ Corpus diacrónico del español (CORDE), accessed 2020-02-21, which cites an edition by Cacho Blecua, Juan Manuel; Lacarra, María Jesús; published by Castalia: Madrid, 1993.
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ultimately from Latin vērificāre. Doublet of verificar.
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: a‧ve‧ri‧guar
Verb
[edit]averiguar (first-person singular present (Brazilian Portuguese) averíguo or (European Portuguese) averiguo, first-person singular preterite averiguei, past participle averiguado)
- (transitive) to investigate
Conjugation
[edit]1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
3Superseded.
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish averiguar, from Late Latin vērificāre as a semi-learned term, with the prefix a- from Latin ad-. According to Coromines and Pascual, citing Rufino José Cuervo, it is first attested in a Fuero Juzgo from 1240.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]averiguar (first-person singular present averiguo, first-person singular preterite averigüé, past participle averiguado)
- (transitive) to find out, figure out, work out, determine
- Synonym: encontrar
- No me digas la respuesta. Déjame averiguarla.
- Don't tell me the answer. Let me figure it out.
- (transitive) to dig up, to investigate
- Synonym: investigar
- Voy a averiguar quién hizo la travesura.
- I'm going to dig up who was the one that did the mischief.
Conjugation
[edit]These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983) “vero”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume V (Ri–X), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 790
- “averiguar”, in Diccionario 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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- Rhymes:Asturian/aɾ
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