negar

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negar

1. (transitive) to deny

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “negar”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

• ñegar

From Latin negāre.

negar (first-person singular indicative present nego, past participle negáu)

1. to deny
2. (reflexive) to refuse

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negar

1. weeping

Borrowed from Spanish negar (“to deny”).

• Hyphenation: ne‧gar
• IPA^(key): /neˈɡaɾ/

negar

1. to deny

   Synonyms: dehar, rirong

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

Inherited from Old Catalan negar, from Latin negāre (“refuse”).

negar (first-person singular present nego, first-person singular preterite neguí, past participle negat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. to deny (not allow)
2. to deny (assert that something is not true)
3. to refuse

   Synonym: refusar

Inherited from Old Catalan negar, from Latin necāre (“murder”), which specialized to the sense of 'drown' in Romance. Cognate with French noyer.

negar (first-person singular present nego, first-person singular preterite neguí, past participle negat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. (transitive, reflexive) to drown
2. (transitive, reflexive) to flood

   Synonym: inundar

• “negar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “negar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “negar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “negar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old Galician-Portuguese negar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin negāre.

• IPA^(key):

negar (first-person singular present nego, first-person singular preterite neguei, past participle negado)

1. to deny
2. to withhold; to deprive

• renegar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “negar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “negar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “negar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “negar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “negar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “negar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “negar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Vulgar Latin *adnecāre (“to drown”), derived from necō (“I kill”). Compare Spanish anegar, Romanian îneca, French noyer.

• Western IPA^(key): /(a)neˈɡa/
• Eastern IPA^(key): /(a)neˈɡa(ɾ)/

negar

1. (transitive) to drown

From Latin negāre (“to deny”).

• Western IPA^(key): /neˈɡa/
• Eastern IPA^(key): /neˈɡa(ɾ)/

negar

1. (transitive) to deny, to not allow

From Old Galician-Portuguese negar, from Latin negāre.

• Hyphenation: ne‧gar

negar (first-person singular present nego, first-person singular preterite neguei, past participle negado)

1. to deny
   1. to disallow, to prohibit (to not allow)

      Synonyms: proibir, recusar

      Antonyms: autorizar, consentir, deixar, permitir

   2. to assert that something is not true

      Synonyms: desdizer, desmentir

      Antonyms: afirmar, confirmar

2. (reflexive) to refuse
3. to contest (call into question)

   Synonym: contestar

   Antonym: aceitar

4. (card games) to refuse to let go of a card

• negar a
• negável

Inherited from Latin negāre.

• IPA^(key): /neˈɡaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ne‧gar

negar (first-person singular present niego, first-person singular preterite negué, past participle negado)

1. to deny
2. (reflexive, with a when followed by an infinitive) to refuse

   Me niego a creer que él dijera eso.

   I refuse to believe he said that.

• negar la mayor

• “negar”, 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