preferir

Borrowed from Latin praeferre, with normal change of conjugation to -ir.

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

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preferir (first-person singular present prefereixo, first-person singular preterite preferí, past participle preferit)

1. to prefer

• preferència
• preferent

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

Learned borrowing from Latin praeferre, with a change of conjugation.

preferir (first-person singular present prefiro, third-person singular present prefire, first-person singular preterite preferín, past participle preferido)
preferir (first-person singular present prefiro, third-person singular present prefere, first-person singular preterite preferim or preferi, past participle preferido, reintegrationist norm)

1. (transitive) to prefer

• preferencia
• preferíbel

• “preferir”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “preferir” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Borrowed from Latin praeferre, with a change of conjugation.

• Hyphenation: pre‧fe‧rir

preferir (first-person singular present prefiro, third-person singular present prefere, first-person singular preterite preferi, past participle preferido)

1. (transitive) to prefer

• preferência
• preferível

• “preferir”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “preferir”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “preferir” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “preferir”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “preferir”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “preferir”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from Latin praeferre, with a change of conjugation. Cognate with English prefer.

• IPA^(key): /pɾefeˈɾiɾ/
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: pre‧fe‧rir

preferir (first-person singular present prefiero, first-person singular preterite preferí, past participle preferido)

1. to prefer
2. to rather (be or do)

• “preferir”, 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