conservar

Borrowed from Latin cōnservāre (“to preserve; to conserve”).

conservar (first-person singular present conservo, first-person singular preterite conserví, past participle conservat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. to preserve
2. (reflexive) to be preserved

• conservació
• conservatori

• “conservar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “conservar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “conservar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “conservar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin cōnservō (“I preserve; I conserve”).

conservar

1. to preserve
2. to conserve

From Latin cōnservāre (“to preserve; to conserve”), probably borrowed.

• Hyphenation: con‧ser‧var

conservar (first-person singular present conservo, first-person singular preterite conservei, past participle conservado)

1. to preserve
2. to conserve

For quotations using this term, see Citations:conservar.

Borrowed from Latin cōnservāre (“to preserve; to conserve”).

• IPA^(key): /konseɾˈbaɾ/

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: con‧ser‧var

conservar (first-person singular present conservo, first-person singular preterite conservé, past participle conservado)

1. (transitive) to conserve
2. (transitive) to preserve, retain.

   conservar rasgos ancestrales

   To retain ancestral traits

   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 8:

     Ambos quedaron transformados en terneros, pero conservando la cabeza de hombres.

     Both had been transformed into calves, but keeping the heads of men.

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