deprecar

From Latin dēprecārī (“to avert, ward off, deprecate”).

deprecar (first-person singular present depreco, first-person singular preterite deprequei, past participle deprecado)

1. to entreat, implore
2. to deprecate

Borrowed from Latin dēprecārī (“to avert, to ward off, to deprecate”). The computing sense is a calque of English deprecate.

• Hyphenation: de‧pre‧car

deprecar (first-person singular present depreco, first-person singular preterite deprequei, past participle deprecado)

1. to beg, to supplicate

   Synonyms: implorar, suplicar

2. (anglicism, chiefly computing) to deprecate (to declare something obsolescent; to recommend against a function, technique, command, etc. that still works but has been replaced)

From Latin dēprecārī (“to avert, ward off, deprecate”).

• IPA^(key): /depɾeˈkaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: de‧pre‧car

deprecar (first-person singular present depreco, first-person singular preterite deprequé, past participle deprecado)

1. to entreat, implore
2. to deprecate

• “deprecar”, 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