cavilar

cavilar (first-person singular indicative present cavilo, past participle caviláu)

1. to reflect; think through

Learned borrowing from Latin cavillārī. First attested in the 19th century.

• IPA^(key): [kɑβiˈlaɾ]

cavilar (first-person singular present cavilo, first-person singular preterite cavilei, past participle cavilado)

1. to reflect; to think through

• “cavilar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cavilar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
• “cavilar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cavilar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Borrowed from Latin cavillārī.

• IPA^(key): /kabiˈlaɾ/ [ka.β̞iˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ca‧vi‧lar

cavilar (first-person singular present cavilo, first-person singular preterite cavilé, past participle cavilado)

1. (transitive) to think (something) through; to reflect

• “cavilar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014