interferir

Learned borrowing from Latin interferre, with normal change of conjugation to -ir.

interferir (first-person singular present interfereixo, first-person singular preterite interferí, past participle interferit)

1. (physics, of a wave, intransitive) to interfere (to overlap another wave)
2. (intransitive, reflexive) to interfere (to get involved or involve oneself, causing disturbance)

• interferència

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

From Latin inter- + ferire.

interferir (first-person singular present interfiro, third-person singular present interfire, first-person singular preterite interferín, past participle interferido)
interferir (first-person singular present interfiro, third-person singular present interfere, first-person singular preterite interferim or interferi, past participle interferido, reintegrationist norm)

1. to interfere (to get involved or involve oneself, causing disturbance)

   Synonym: entremeterse

   Non quero interferir na túa vida.

   I don't want to interfere with your personal life.

2. (physics, of a wave) to interfere (to overlap another wave)

• “interferir”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• “interferir” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

From Latin inter- + ferīre (“to strike”).

• Hyphenation: in‧ter‧fe‧rir

interferir (first-person singular present interfiro, third-person singular present interfere, first-person singular preterite interferi, past participle interferido)

1. to interfere (to get involved or involve oneself, causing disturbance)

   Não quero interferir na tua vida pessoal.

   I don't want to interfere with your personal life.

2. (physics, of a wave) to interfere (to overlap another wave)

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

• IPA^(key): /inteɾfeˈɾiɾ/
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: in‧ter‧fe‧rir

interferir (first-person singular present interfiero, first-person singular preterite interferí, past participle interferido)

1. to interfere

• “interferir”, 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