averiguar
Asturian
editAlternative forms
edit- aviriguar (Pravia)
Pronunciation
editVerb
editaveriguar (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
editReferences
edit- “averiguar” in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana. Xosé Lluis García Arias. →ISBN.
Old Spanish
editEtymology
editFrom Late Latin vērificō, vērificāre (“present as if true; verify, prove true”), a semi-learned term. More in the entry of the modern descendant.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editaveriguar
- 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
editEtymology
editUltimately from Latin vērificāre. Doublet of verificar.
Pronunciation
edit
- Hyphenation: a‧ve‧ri‧guar
Verb
editaveriguar (first-person singular present (Brazilian Portuguese) averíguo or (European Portuguese) averiguo, first-person singular preterite averiguei, past participle averiguado)
- (transitive) to investigate
Conjugation
edit1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
3Superseded.
Spanish
editEtymology
editInherited 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
editVerb
editaveriguar (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
editThese forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editFurther 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), Gredos, →ISBN, page 790
- “averiguar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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