criar

Inherited from Latin creāre. Doublet of crear.

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

criar (first-person singular present crio, first-person singular preterite crií, past participle criat)

1. (transitive) to nurse, to breastfeed

   Synonym: alletar

2. (transitive) to raise (to bring up; to grow; to promote)

• criança

• cria
• criat

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

• creyér
• creyë, creyô (Bressan)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *crītāre.

criar (ORB, broad)

1. to cry out
2. to call out

• crier in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• criar in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France – map 355: “crie-t-il ?” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “quĭrītare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 1464

From Old Galician-Portuguese criar, from Latin creāre, present active infinitive of creō. Doublet of crear.

• IPA^(key):

criar (first-person singular present crío, first-person singular preterite criei, past participle criado)
criar (first-person singular present crio, first-person singular preterite criei, past participle criado, reintegrationist norm)

1. (transitive) to generate, grow

   Synonyms: producir, xerar

   Esa bola criou balor ― That loaf has grown mold

2. (transitive) to raise, to rear, to bring up

   Synonym: educar

   Fun criado deste xeito ― I was raised this way

3. (transitive) to breed (animals or plants)

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “criar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “criar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “criar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “criar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “criar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Galician-Portuguese criar, from Latin creāre.

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /kɾi.ˈaɦ/
• Hyphenation: cri‧ar

criar (first-person singular present crio, first-person singular preterite criei, past participle criado)

1. (transitive) to create, to put into existence

   Synonyms: fazer, gerar, produzir, fundar

2. (transitive) to invent

   Synonym: inventar

3. (transitive) to raise (a child)

   Synonym: educar

   Fui criado dessa maneira. ― I was raised that way.

4. (transitive) to breed (animals or plants)

Inherited from Latin creāre. Doublet of the borrowed crear.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾjaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: criar

criar (first-person singular present crío, first-person singular preterite crie, past participle criado)

1. (transitive) to rear or raise (e.g., a child)
2. (pronominal) to grow up

   Synonym: crecer

   Nació en San Sebastián pero se crió en Tenerife.

   S/he was born in San Sebastián but grew up in Tenerife.

• crear

• “criar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

criar

1. (transitive, intransitive) to fight or scold

• Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

• piànzar