prevaricar

Borrowed from Latin praevāricārī.

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

prevaricar (first-person singular present prevarico, first-person singular preterite prevariquí, past participle prevaricat)

1. (intransitive) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

• prevaricació

prevaricar (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of prevaricare

From Latin praevāricārī.

• Hyphenation: pre‧va‧ri‧car

prevaricar (first-person singular present prevarico, first-person singular preterite prevariquei, past participle prevaricado)

1. to fail or refuse to obey certain laws, rules or obligations

   Synonym: descumprir

   1. (law) to commit the crime of prevarication, which consists in not complying with laws
2. to betray
3. (transitive) to corrupt

• prevaricação

From Latin praevāricārī. Cognate with English prevaricate.

• IPA^(key): /pɾebaɾiˈkaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: pre‧va‧ri‧car

prevaricar (first-person singular present prevarico, first-person singular preterite prevariqué, past participle prevaricado)

1. to prevaricate

   Synonyms: andarse con rodeos, andarse por las ramas, tergiversar

2. (law) to commit perjury
3. to fall short performing, or to neglect, one's duties
4. (colloquial) to go mad

• “prevaricar”, 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