proseguir

Learned borrowing from Latin prōsequor, prosequi, modeled after Galician seguir.

• IPA^(key): ,

proseguir (first-person singular present prosigo, third-person singular present prosegue, first-person singular preterite proseguín, past participle proseguido)

1. to continue

• “proseguir”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Borrowed from Latin prosequi, modeled after Spanish seguir.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /pɾoseˈɡiɾ/
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: pro‧se‧guir

proseguir (first-person singular present prosigo, first-person singular preterite proseguí, past participle proseguido)

1. (transitive) to continue (proceed with, prolong)

   Synonyms: seguir, continuar

   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 75:

     De distancia en distancia [el Lampalagua] saca la cabeza a la superficie, en medio de un potrero, a la entrada de un villorrio, y si tiene hambre, devora cuanto le rodea, así hombres como animales y sembrados, prosiguiendo después impertérrito su camino subterráneo.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (transitive) to pursue (aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation))
3. (intransitive) to continue, go on (resume (especially speaking))

• “proseguir”, 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