liar

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Etymology

From Middle English lier, liere, lyere, liȝer, lieȝer, legher, from Old English lēgere, lēogere (“liar, false witness, hypocrite”), from Proto-West Germanic *leugārī, from Proto-Germanic *leugārijaz (“liar”), from *leuganą (“to lie”) +‎ *-ārijaz, equivalent to lie +‎ -ar. More at lie.

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Noun

liar (plural liars)

  1. A person who frequently lies.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 15, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
      She paused and took a defiant breath. ‘If you don't believe me, I can't help it. But I'm not a liar.’ ¶ ‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? […]’
  2. (nautical, obsolete) A swabber responsible for cleaning the outside parts of the ship rather than the cabins, a role traditionally assigned to a person caught telling a lie the previous week.
    • 1703, Sir William Monson, Sir William Monson's Naval Tracts in Six Books, page 348:
      The Swabber is to keep the Cabbins, and all the Rooms of the Ship clean within board, and the Liar to do the like without board. The Liar holds his Place but for a week; and he that is first taken with a Lie upon a Monday morning, […] for that week he is under the Swabber, and meddles not with making clean the Ship within board, but without.
    • 2005, Caleb H. Johnson, The Mayflower and Her Passengers, page 35:
      The swabber, perhaps the lowliest position on the ship, was responsible for cleaning the decks. By tradition, each Monday a new crewmember was appointed the liar—the first person caught telling a lie the previous week.

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Portuguese

Etymology

Possibly borrowed from Old French lier, from Latin ligāre. Doublet of ligar and legar.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /liˈa(ʁ)/ , (faster pronunciation) /ˈlja(ʁ)/
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /liˈa(ɾ)/ , (faster pronunciation) /ˈlja(ɾ)/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /liˈa(ʁ)/ , (faster pronunciation) /ˈlja(ʁ)/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /liˈa(ɻ)/ , (faster pronunciation) /ˈlja(ɻ)/
 

  • Hyphenation: li‧ar

Verb

liar (first-person singular present lio, first-person singular preterite liei, past participle liado) (transitive)

  1. to tie
    Synonyms: atar, amarrar
  2. to connect, to link
    Synonym: ligar

Conjugation

    Conjugation of liar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
Singular Plural
First-person
(eu) 		Second-person
(tu) 		Third-person
(ele / ela / você) 		First-person
(nós) 		Second-person
(vós) 		Third-person
(eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal liar
Personal liar liares liar liarmos liardes liarem
Gerund
liando
Past participle
Masculine liado liados
Feminine liada liadas
Indicative
Present lio lias lia liamos liais liam
Imperfect liava liavas liava liávamos liáveis liavam
Preterite liei liaste liou liamos1, liámos2 liastes liaram
Pluperfect liara liaras liara liáramos liáreis liaram
Future liarei liarás liará liaremos liareis liarão
Conditional liaria liarias liaria liaríamos liaríeis liariam
Subjunctive
Present lie lies lie liemos lieis liem
Imperfect liasse liasses liasse liássemos liásseis liassem
Future liar liares liar liarmos liardes liarem
Imperative
Affirmative lia lie liemos liai liem
Negative (não) não lies não lie não liemos não lieis não liem

1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin ligāre, possibly through the intermediate of Old French lier in the Middle Ages, as it appeared relatively late in Spanish texts. See also the doublet ligar, a semi-learned term, as well as the inherited Old Spanish form legar (“to tie, bind”) (in modern Spanish, this word survives as a rare regionalism, often with a specialized sense such as "tie or bind a sheep for shearing", or "to join together, unite"). Compare Sicilian alligari.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈljaɾ/
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Syllabification: liar

Verb

liar (first-person singular present lío, first-person singular preterite lie, past participle liado)

  1. to bind, tie
  2. to wrap, wrap up
  3. to roll (a cigarette)
  4. (colloquial) to deceive, confuse
  5. (reflexive, colloquial, Spain) to french, snog, make out

Conjugation

    Conjugation of liar (i-í alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive liar
gerund liando
past participle masculine feminine
singular liado liada
plural liados liadas
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative yo tú
vos 		él/ella/ello
usted 		nosotros
nosotras 		vosotros
vosotras 		ellos/ellas
ustedes
present lío líastú
liasvos 		lía liamos liais lían
imperfect liaba liabas liaba liábamos liabais liaban
preterite lie liaste lio liamos liasteis liaron
future liaré liarás liará liaremos liaréis liarán
conditional liaría liarías liaría liaríamos liaríais liarían
subjunctive yo tú
vos 		él/ella/ello
usted 		nosotros
nosotras 		vosotros
vosotras 		ellos/ellas
ustedes
present líe líestú
liesvos2 		líe liemos lieis líen
imperfect
(ra) 		liara liaras liara liáramos liarais liaran
imperfect
(se) 		liase liases liase liásemos liaseis liasen
future1 liare liares liare liáremos liareis liaren
imperative — tú
vos 		usted nosotros
nosotras 		vosotros
vosotras 		ustedes
affirmative líatú
liavos 		líe liemos liad líen
negative no líes no líe no liemos no lieis no líen

1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

    Selected combined forms of liar (i-í alternation)

These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
with infinitive liar
dative liarme liarte liarle, liarse liarnos liaros liarles, liarse
accusative liarme liarte liarlo, liarla, liarse liarnos liaros liarlos, liarlas, liarse
with gerund liando
dative liándome liándote liándole, liándose liándonos liándoos liándoles, liándose
accusative liándome liándote liándolo, liándola, liándose liándonos liándoos liándolos, liándolas, liándose
with informal second-person singular tú imperative lía
dative líame líate líale líanos not used líales
accusative líame líate líalo, líala líanos not used líalos, líalas
with informal second-person singular vos imperative lia
dative liame liate liale lianos not used liales
accusative liame liate lialo, liala lianos not used lialos, lialas
with formal second-person singular imperative líe
dative líeme not used líele, líese líenos not used líeles
accusative líeme not used líelo, líela, líese líenos not used líelos, líelas
with first-person plural imperative liemos
dative not used liémoste liémosle liémonos liémoos liémosles
accusative not used liémoste liémoslo, liémosla liémonos liémoos liémoslos, liémoslas
with informal second-person plural imperative liad
dative liadme not used liadle liadnos liaos liadles
accusative liadme not used liadlo, liadla liadnos liaos liadlos, liadlas
with formal second-person plural imperative líen
dative líenme not used líenle líennos not used líenles, líense
accusative líenme not used líenlo, líenla líennos not used líenlos, líenlas, líense

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References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

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Noun

liar

  1. indefinite plural of lie

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