esmar

• asmar, osmar, usmar

From Old Galician-Portuguese osmar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin aestimare, present active infinitive of aestimō. Doublet of estimar.

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esmar (first-person singular present esmo, first-person singular preterite esmei, past participle esmado)

1. (archaic) to estimate; to appraise
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 469:

     Et os adubos erã d'ouro et de pedras preçiosas, tã nobles et de tã grã ualía que osmauã que ualíã grandes çidades.

     And the jewels were of gold and precious gems, so noble and of such worth that they estimated that they were worth as much as large cities

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “osmar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “osmar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “esmar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “esmar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “esmar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “esmar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “esmar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Latin aestimare. Doublet of estimar.

• Hyphenation: es‧mar

esmar (first-person singular present esmo, first-person singular preterite esmei, past participle esmado)

1. (transitive, archaic) to estimate, to calculate roughly

   Synonyms: estimar, calcular, avaliar

2. (transitive, archaic) to conjecture

• “esmar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “esmar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024