contemplar

Borrowed from Latin contemplāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

contemplar (first-person singular present contemplo, first-person singular preterite contemplí, past participle contemplat)

1. (transitive) to contemplate

• contemplació
• contemplatiu

• “contemplar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “contemplar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “contemplar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “contemplar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Learned borrowing from Latin contemplō, contemplāre.

contemplar (first-person singular present contemplo, first-person singular preterite contemplei, past participle contemplado)

1. (transitive) to contemplate

• contemplación
• contemplativo

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

contemplar

1. to contemplate

Borrowed from Latin contemplāre.

• Hyphenation: con‧tem‧plar

contemplar (first-person singular present contemplo, first-person singular preterite contemplei, past participle contemplado)

1. (transitive) to behold (to look at with awe)
2. to contemplate (think about something in a concentrated manner)

• contemplação
• contemplativo

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

Borrowed from Latin contemplāre.

contemplar

1. (Sursilvan, Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) to contemplate
2. (Sursilvan, Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) to observe

   Synonym: vurdar (Sutsilvan; Surmiran)

Borrowed from Latin contemplāre.

• IPA^(key): /kontemˈplaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: con‧tem‧plar

contemplar (first-person singular present contemplo, first-person singular preterite contemplé, past participle contemplado)

1. to contemplate
2. to behold
3. to regard
4. (neologism) to envisage
5. (neologism, anglicism) to foresee, anticipate, prevent

• “contemplar”, 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