firmar

firmar (first-person singular indicative present firmo, past participle firmáu)

1. to sign

Learned borrowing from Latin firmāre.

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

firmar (first-person singular present firmo, first-person singular preterite firmí, past participle firmat)

1. (transitive) to sign

   Synonym: signar

• firma

• firmant

• “firmar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Old Galician-Portuguese firmar, from Latin firmāre, present active infinitive of firmō (“I make firm”).

• IPA^(key):

firmar (first-person singular present firmo, first-person singular preterite firmei, past participle firmado)

1. to sign (formerly, to make firm by adding one's name)

   Synonym: asinar

   • 1441, J. L. Novo Cazón, editor, El priorato santiaguista de Vilar de Donas en la Edad Media (1194-1500), A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 365:

     esta carta de foro et de quel eu, Joan Loppes, fize et firmey et syney de meu signo

     this contract charter that I, Xoán López, made and signed and signed with my sign

• firma

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

• Hyphenation: fir‧mar

firmar (first-person singular present firmo, first-person singular preterite firmei, past participle firmado)

1. to sign
2. to stabilize
3. to fix

From Latin firmāre (“make firm, confirm”). Doublet of hirmar.

• IPA^(key): /fiɾˈmaɾ/

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: fir‧mar

firmar (first-person singular present firmo, first-person singular preterite firmé, past participle firmado)

1. to sign

   Él no quiso firmar el papel y por ende, no se pudo hacer nada.

   He didn't want to sign the paper and as a result, nothing could be done.

• “firmar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014