guerrear

From Old Galician-Portuguese guerrejar (13th c., Cantigas de Santa Maria), Inherited from Vulgar Latin *werrizāre. Derivable from guerra (“war”) +‎ -ear (verb-forming suffix).

• IPA^(key): [ɡereˈaɾ]

guerrear (first-person singular present guerreo, first-person singular preterite guerreei, past participle guerreado)
guerrear (first-person singular present guerreio, first-person singular preterite guerreei, past participle guerreado, reintegrationist norm)

1. to wage war
2. to fight
   • 1460, J. A. Souto Cabo, editor, Crónica de Santa María de Íria, Santiago: Ediciós do Castro, page 106:

     vieron çen nabes armadas de normanos a Galiza, et guerrearõ por tres años et destroyron a terra

     a hundred ship armed with Norsemen came to Galicia, and they fought for three years and wasted the land

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “guerrejar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “guerre”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “guerrear”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “guerrear”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “guerrear”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “guerrear”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2025
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “guerrear”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Vulgar Latin *werrizāre. Derivable from guerra (“war”) +‎ -ear (verb-forming suffix).

• (Alentejo, Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɡɐriˈaɾ/ (as if spelled "garrear")
• Hyphenation: guer‧re‧ar

guerrear (first-person singular present guerreio, first-person singular preterite guerreei, past participle guerreado)

1. to wage war
2. to fight
3. (Alentejo, Algarve, Azores) to bicker, to argue

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

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *werrizāre. Derivable from guerra (“war”) +‎ -ear (verb-forming suffix).

• IPA^(key): /ɡereˈaɾ/ [ɡe.reˈaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: gue‧rre‧ar

guerrear (first-person singular present guerreo, first-person singular preterite guerreé, past participle guerreado)

1. to wage war
2. to fight

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