adquirir

Borrowed from Latin adquīrere, with normal change of conjugation to -ir.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

adquirir (first-person singular present adquireixo, first-person singular preterite adquirí, past participle adquirit)

1. (transitive) to acquire (to gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own)

• adquisició

• “adquirir”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies , April 2007
• “adquirir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “adquirir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “adquirir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /adkiˈɾiɾ/
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Hyphenation: ad‧qui‧rir

adquirir (first-person singular present adquiro, first-person singular preterite adquirín, past participle adquirido)
adquirir (first-person singular present adquiro, first-person singular preterite adquirim or adquiri, past participle adquirido, reintegrationist norm)

1. to acquire (to get as one's own)

• “adquirir”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “adquirir” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Borrowed from Latin adquīrere, with a change in conjugation. Cognate of Spanish adquirir, French acquérir and English acquire.

• Hyphenation: ad‧qui‧rir

adquirir (first-person singular present adquiro, first-person singular preterite adquiri, past participle adquirido)

1. to acquire, get, obtain, procure

   Synonyms: conseguir, obter, arrumar

2. to purchase, buy

   Synonym: comprar

Borrowed from Latin adquīrere. Attested from the fifteenth century.

• IPA^(key): /adkiˈɾiɾ/

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• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: ad‧qui‧rir

adquirir (first-person singular present adquiero, first-person singular preterite adquirí, past participle adquirido)

1. (transitive) to acquire

   Synonym: conseguir

2. (transitive) to buy

   Synonym: comprar

• “adquirir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy , December 10 2024