mellorar

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Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese mellorar, from Late Latin meliōrāre, a verb based on Latin melior (“better”).

Pronunciation

Verb

mellorar (first-person singular present melloro, first-person singular preterite mellorei, past participle mellorado)

  1. to improve; to better
    Antonyms: desmellorar, empeorar
    • 1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:
      Virés acò meu Dieguiño
      cando ò tempo milloràr,
      porqe si escorrega á Besta
      è esbarroufàs, alabay.
      You'll come here my little Diego
      when the weather improves
      because if the mount slips
      and you sprawl, here goes nothing!
  2. to recover
    Synonym: sandar

Conjugation

    Conjugation of mellorar
Singular Plural
First-person
(eu) 		Second-person
(ti) 		Third-person
(el / ela / Vde.) 		First-person
(nós) 		Second-person
(vós) 		Third-person
(eles / elas / Vdes.)
Infinitive
Impersonal mellorar
Personal mellorar mellorares mellorar mellorarmos mellorardes melloraren
Gerund
mellorando
Past participle
Masculine mellorado mellorados
Feminine mellorada melloradas
Indicative
Present melloro melloras mellora melloramos mellorades melloran
Imperfect melloraba mellorabas melloraba mellorabamos mellorabades melloraban
Preterite mellorei melloraches mellorou melloramos mellorastes melloraron
Pluperfect mellorara melloraras mellorara melloraramos mellorarades melloraran
Future mellorarei mellorarás mellorará melloraremos melloraredes mellorarán
Conditional melloraría mellorarías melloraría mellorariamos mellorariades mellorarían
Subjunctive
Present mellore mellores mellore melloremos melloredes melloren
Imperfect mellorase mellorases mellorase mellorásemos mellorásedes mellorasen
Future mellorar mellorares mellorar mellorarmos mellorardes melloraren
Imperative
Affirmative mellora mellore melloremos mellorade melloren
Negative (non) non mellores non mellore non melloremos non melloredes non melloren

Derived terms

Related terms

References

  • “mellorar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “mellorar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “mellorar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “mellorar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “mellorar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
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