pregar

Inherited from Old Catalan pregar, from Latin precārī.

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

pregar (first-person singular present prego, first-person singular preterite preguí, past participle pregat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. to pray, ask humbly (to a person)
2. to pray (to God)

• In its religious sense, the verb pregar is now less common than resar, especially when speaking of non-Christian religions.

• pregadeu

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

From Old Galician-Portuguese pregar, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin plicāre (“to fold”). See also chegar, an inherited doublet.

• Rhymes: -aɾ

pregar (first-person singular present prego, first-person singular preterite preguei, past participle pregado)

1. (transitive) to fold
2. (transitive, dated) to nail
3. (of fire) to fire, burn

• preganza

From Old Galician-Portuguese pregar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *precāre, from Latin precārī.

• Rhymes: -aɾ

pregar (first-person singular present prego, first-person singular preterite preguei, past participle pregado)

1. to request
2. to pray (to God)

• pregaria

From Old Galician-Portuguese preegar, from Latin praedicāre (“to proclaim”). Doublet of predicar.

• Rhymes: -aɾ

pregar (first-person singular present prego, first-person singular preterite preguei, past participle pregado)

1. (archaic) to preach; to proclaim
   • 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 47:

     Quando aquel Ihesus, meu señor, ya por la terras preegar, eu avia de moy grãde amor et soydade de veer a sua façe et quigi mãdar pintar a semelança do seu rrostro, que era a mays fremosa criatura do mũdo, en hũu pano por fillar cõ ela prazer et cõforto quando o vise; et querendoo fazer cõteyllo todo, et el pediome o pano et posoo ẽna sua cara et doumo encayado cõ tal figura cal era o seu santo rrostro;

     When that Jesus, my Lord, was going about the lands preaching, I had, because of how big was my love, longing for seeing His face; and I wanted to order a paint after His face, which was the most beautiful creation in the world, in a cloth, for having joy and confort whenever I saw it; and wanting to do it I told him, and He asked me for the cloth, put it on His face and gave it back to me stuck with a figure that was no other than His holy face;

• pregador

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

Borrowed from French prier, Italian pregare. Compare Esperanto preĝi.

• IPA^(key): /preˈɡar/

pregar (present tense pregas, past tense pregis, future tense pregos, imperative pregez, conditional pregus)

1. (transitive, religion) to pray (to)
2. (transitive) to beg, entreat, beseech

    Conjugation of pregar

		present		past		future
infinitive		pregar		pregir		pregor
tense		pregas		pregis		pregos
conditional		pregus
imperative		pregez
adjective active participle		preganta		preginta		pregonta
adverbial active participle		pregante		preginte		pregonte
nominal active participle	singular	preganto		preginto		pregonto
	plural	preganti		preginti		pregonti
adjective passive participle		pregata		pregita		pregota
adverbial passive participle		pregate		pregite		pregote
nominal passive participle	singular	pregato		pregito		pregoto
	plural	pregati		pregiti		pregoti

• suplikar

From Old Occitan pregar, from Latin precārī.

• IPA^(key): /pɾeˈɣa/

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pregar

1. to pray
2. to ask, politely request

• prèga
• pregària
• prègadieu
• en v'ac pregar

• prejar (Limousin)
• priar (Vivaro-alpine)
• preguejar (Gascon)

From Latin precārī.

pregar

1. to pray (as to God)

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “precari”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 9: Placabilis–Pyxis, page 337

From Old Galician-Portuguese pregar, a semi-learned term taken from Latin plicāre (“to fold”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to plait, to weave”). See also chegar, an inherited doublet, and the borrowing plicar.

• Hyphenation: pre‧gar

pregar (first-person singular present prego, first-person singular preterite preguei, past participle pregado)

1. to nail (employ a nail or similar object as a fastener)

   Synonym: martelar

   Antonym: despregar

2. to stare

   Synonym: encarar

From Old Galician-Portuguese preegar, from Latin praedicāre (“to proclaim”), from prae (“before, in front”) + dicō (“devote, consecrate”).

• Hyphenation: pre‧gar

pregar (first-person singular present prego, first-person singular preterite preguei, past participle pregado)

1. to preach (give a sermon)

   Synonym: proferir

2. to preach; to advocate (encourage support)

   Synonyms: difundir, preconizar

• IPA^(key): /pɾeˈɡaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: pre‧gar

pregar (first-person singular present prego, first-person singular preterite pregué, past participle pregado)

1. (obsolete) to fix; to join

• “pregar”, 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