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Spanish
Etymology
From comisario.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /komisaˈɾjaɾ/
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: co‧mi‧sa‧riar
Verb
comisariar (first-person singular present comisarío, first-person singular preterite comisarié, past participle comisariado)
- to curate
2015 September 29, “Arte, locura y destrucción”, in El País:Por ejemplo, dos pintores sobre los cuales he comisariado sendas exposiciones: el figurativo norteamericano Alex Katz, que tiene 87 años, y el abstracto suizo Helmut Federle, que tiene 71.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
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