estimar

Borrowed from Latin aestimāre. Compare also Old Catalan aesmar, from a Vulgar Latin *adaestimāre (see also the modern Catalan derivative esme).

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• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

estimar (first-person singular present estimo, first-person singular preterite estimí, past participle estimat)

1. to love

   Synonyms: amar, voler

   T'estimo. ― I love you.

2. to esteem
3. to estimate

• estimar-se més
• sobreestimar
• subestimar

• esme, esma
• estimació

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

From Old Galician-Portuguese estimar (13th century); borrowed from Latin aestimāre. Doublet of esmar.

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estimar (first-person singular present estimo, first-person singular preterite estimei, past participle estimado)

1. to estimate, appraise
   • 1347, E. Duro Peña (ed.), El Monasterio de S. Pedro de Rocas y su colección documental. Ourense: Instituto de Estudios Orensanos "Padre Feijoo", page 192:

     se veer grando ou geada que seia estimado por dous lavradores da dita villa et por hun frade do dito mosteiro

     in case of hail or frost must be appraised by two farmers of said town and a friar of said monastery

2. to esteem; to thank, to be grateful for

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

• estima
• istimar

Borrowed from Spanish estimar.

• IPA^(key): /ʔesˈtimaɾ/
• Hyphenation: es‧ti‧mar

estimár (Kur-itan spelling ᜁᜐ᜔ᜆᜒᜋᜎ᜔)

1. attention given to or entertainment of guest

• Rubino, Carl Ralph Galvez (2000) “estimar”, in Byron W. Bender, editor, Ilocano Dictionary and Grammar: Ilocano-English, English-Ilocano‎ (overall work in English and Ilocano), Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 188

Borrowed from Latin aestimāre. Doublet of esmar.

• Hyphenation: es‧ti‧mar

estimar (first-person singular present estimo, first-person singular preterite estimei, past participle estimado)

1. to estimate
2. to assess, evaluate, appraise
3. to esteem

Borrowed from Latin aestimāre.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /estiˈmaɾ/

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: es‧ti‧mar

estimar (first-person singular present estimo, first-person singular preterite estimé, past participle estimado)

1. to esteem
2. to estimate
3. to think, to believe

• “estimar”, 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