precipitar

Borrowed from Latin praecipitāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

precipitar (first-person singular present precipito, first-person singular preterite precipití, past participle precipitat)

1. (transitive) to cause to fall, to throw down
2. (transitive) to hasten, to precipitate
3. (reflexive) to get ahead of oneself; to act hastily

• precipitació

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

Borrowed from English precipitate, French précipiter, Italian precipitare, Spanish precipitar. The reflexive sense “to hurry” derives from French, Spanish and English.

• IPA^(key): /pre.t͡si.piˈtar/

precipitar (present precipitas, past precipitis, future precipitos, conditional precipitus, imperative precipitez)

1. (transitive) to cause to fall, to drop
2. (reflexive) to hurry

    Conjugation of precipitar

		present		past		future
infinitive		precipitar		precipitir		precipitor
tense		precipitas		precipitis		precipitos
conditional		precipitus
imperative		precipitez
adjective active participle		precipitanta		precipitinta		precipitonta
adverbial active participle		precipitante		precipitinte		precipitonte
nominal active participle	singular	precipitanto		precipitinto		precipitonto
	plural	precipitanti		precipitinti		precipitonti
adjective passive participle		precipitata		precipitita		precipitota
adverbial passive participle		precipitate		precipitite		precipitote
nominal passive participle	singular	precipitato		precipitito		precipitoto
	plural	precipitati		precipititi		precipitoti

From Latin praecipitāre (“to cast down, to throw headlong”).

• Hyphenation: pre‧ci‧pi‧tar

precipitar (first-person singular present precipito, first-person singular preterite precipitei, past participle precipitado)

1. to precipitate (all senses)

• precipitação

Borrowed from Latin praecipitāre (“to cast down, to throw headlong”).

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /pɾeθipiˈtaɾ/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /pɾesipiˈtaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: pre‧ci‧pi‧tar

precipitar (first-person singular present precipito, first-person singular preterite precipité, past participle precipitado)

1. to precipitate
2. (reflexive) to rush in, to rush into, to jump the gun
3. (reflexive) to plummet

• “precipitar”, 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