imperar

Borrowed from Latin imperāre. Also borrowed from English imperious, French impérieux, Italian imperioso, Spanish imperioso.

• IPA^(key): /impeˈrar/

imperar (present imperas, past imperis, future imperos, conditional imperus, imperative imperez)

1. (transitive) to order, direct, enjoin, bid, command (not military)
2. (transitive) to rule, have sway

    Conjugation of imperar

		present		past		future
infinitive		imperar		imperir		imperor
tense		imperas		imperis		imperos
conditional		imperus
imperative		imperez
adjective active participle		imperanta		imperinta		imperonta
adverbial active participle		imperante		imperinte		imperonte
nominal active participle	singular	imperanto		imperinto		imperonto
	plural	imperanti		imperinti		imperonti
adjective passive participle		imperata		imperita		imperota
adverbial passive participle		imperate		imperite		imperote
nominal passive participle	singular	imperato		imperito		imperoto
	plural	imperati		imperiti		imperoti

Borrowed from Latin imperāre (“command, govern”).

• Hyphenation: im‧pe‧rar

imperar (first-person singular present impero, first-person singular preterite imperei, past participle imperado)

1. (intransitive) to reign, rule

• imperador

• “imperar”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “imperar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “imperar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “imperar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “imperar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “imperar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from Latin imperāre (“command, govern”); Cf. the dialectal emprar and semi-learned Old Spanish emperar.

• IPA^(key): /impeˈɾaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: im‧pe‧rar

imperar (first-person singular present impero, first-person singular preterite imperé, past participle imperado)

1. (intransitive) to reign, rule

   Synonym: regir

2. (intransitive) to prevail
3. (intransitive) to be in command, be emperor

• “imperar”, 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