pedir

Galician

Alternative forms

• pidir

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese pedir, from Vulgar Latin *petīre, from Latin petere (“ask, request”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Verb

pedir (first-person singular present pido, third-person singular present pide, first-person singular preterite pedín, past participle pedido)
pedir (first-person singular present pido or peço, first-person singular preterite pedim or pedi, past participle pedido, reintegrationist norm)

1. to ask for; to request; to order

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

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

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• pidir (obsolete, now eye dialect)
• pidi, pedi (eye dialect, Brazil)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese pedir, from Vulgar Latin *petīre, from Latin petere (“ask, request”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pe‧dir

Verb

pedir (first-person singular present peço, first-person singular preterite pedi, past participle pedido)

1. (transitive with por or with no preposition) to ask for; to request (to express the need or desire for something)

   Nenhum de vocês precisa pedir permissão para ninguém. ― Neither of you has to ask anyone for permission.

   Peço que vocês parem de fazer barulho. ― I ask you to stop making noise.

   Se está com dificuldade, peça por ajuda. ― If you are having difficulties, ask for help.

2. (transitive) to order (to request a product or service)

   pedir uma pizza ― to order a pizza

3. (transitive with por or with no preposition) to ask for; to invite (to be in obvious need of)

   Estas janelas estão pedindo uma limpeza! ― These windows are asking for a cleaning!

4. (ditransitive, with the indirect object taking por) to charge (to assign a given price to something)

   Synonym: cobrar

   O vendedor pediu dez mil pelo carro. ― The salesman charged ten thousand for the car.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• pedinte

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: pidi

Further reading

• “pedir” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “pedir” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “pedir” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “pedir” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “pedir” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “pedir” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *petīre, from Latin petere (“ask, request”). Compare English petition.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peˈdiɾ/

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: pe‧dir

Verb

pedir (first-person singular present pido, first-person singular preterite pedí, past participle pedido)

1. (transitive) to ask for something

   Él le pidió agua al camarero.

   He asked the waiter for water.

   ¿Puede pedirle el dinero?

   Can you ask her for the money?

2. to request someone else to do something

   Pido que ustedes estén ahí a la una.

   I ask that you be there at one o'clock.

   • 2016 November, “La raza de gatos más cariñosa”, in Frontera.info‎:

     Si no les das el cariño suficiente acudirán a pedírtelo por lo que necesitan dueños que puedan prestarles la suficiente atención.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. (transitive) to order something

   Voy a pedir una hamburguesa.

   I am going to order a burger.

4. (transitive) to call, call in (e.g. to call for help, to call for backup, to call in a favor)
5. to plead

Conjugation

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Related terms

Further reading

• “pedir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014