meditar

Borrowed from Latin meditārī.

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

meditar (first-person singular present medito, first-person singular preterite medití, past participle meditat)

1. (intransitive) to meditate (rest while remaining conscious)
   • 2015, Emmanuel Carrére, El Regne, Anagrama, →ISBN:

     […] uns quants anys més tard, em demanaré si és millor posarse a meditar abans o després dels exercicis de ioga.

     a few years later, I'll wonder if it's better to start meditating before or after doing yoga exercises.

2. (transitive, intransitive) to meditate, to ponder, to contemplate
   • 2000, Salvador Llobet i Reverter: la geografia, entre ciència i passió, Institut d'Estudis Catalans, →ISBN, page 98:

     No és imprescindible estudiar moltes matèries, ni llegir molts llibres; poden ser pocs, però bons i ben meditats.

     It's not essential to study many subjects or read many books; they can be few, as long as they're good and well-pondered.

• meditació
• meditatiu
• premeditar

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

From Latin meditor.

• IPA^(key): /mediˈtar/

meditar (present tense meditas, past tense meditis, future tense meditos, imperative meditez, conditional meditus)

1. to ponder

    Conjugation of meditar

		present		past		future
infinitive		meditar		meditir		meditor
tense		meditas		meditis		meditos
conditional		meditus
imperative		meditez
adjective active participle		meditanta		meditinta		meditonta
adverbial active participle		meditante		meditinte		meditonte
nominal active participle	singular	meditanto		meditinto		meditonto
	plural	meditanti		meditinti		meditonti
adjective passive participle		meditata		meditita		meditota
adverbial passive participle		meditate		meditite		meditote
nominal passive participle	singular	meditato		meditito		meditoto
	plural	meditati		medititi		meditoti

• pensar

Borrowed from Latin meditārī.

• Hyphenation: me‧di‧tar

meditar (first-person singular present medito, first-person singular preterite meditei, past participle meditado)

1. to meditate

• “meditar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

From Latin meditārī.

• IPA^(key): /mediˈtaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: me‧di‧tar

meditar (first-person singular present medito, first-person singular preterite medité, past participle meditado)

1. (intransitive) to meditate (rest while remaining conscious)
   • 2015, Paloma Sainz Martínez Vara de Rey, Mindfulness para niños, Grupo Planeta Spain →ISBN

     Toda persona debería aprender a meditar, y cuanto antes en la vida lo haga, tanto mejor.

     Everyone should learn to meditate, and the sooner in life that they do, the better.

2. (transitive, intransitive) to meditate, to ponder, to contemplate
   • 2006, Juan C. González, Perspectivas contemporáneas sobre la cognición: categorización, percepción y conceptualización, Siglo XXI, →ISBN, page 77:

     No meditan sobre sus propias representaciones mentales.

     They don't contemplate their own mental representations.

   Synonyms: considerar, contemplar, rumiar

• “meditar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28