agorar

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Spanish

Etymology

Either from Vulgar Latin *agurāre, from Latin augurāre, in which case the maintenance of /o/ (and its diphthongization under stress) would be due to the influence of the noun agüero, or alternatively a verb independently built from the latter.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aɡoˈɾaɾ/
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Syllabification: a‧go‧rar

Verb

agorar (first-person singular present agüero, first-person singular preterite agoré, past participle agorado)

  1. to predict or announce something, especially a misfortune

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “agüero”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 83

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