negar

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negar

1. (transitive) to deny

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “negar”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

• ñegar

From Latin negāre, present active infinitive of negō.

negar (first-person singular indicative present nego, past participle negáu)

1. to deny
2. (reflexive) to refuse

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negar

1. weeping

Borrowed from Spanish negar (“to deny”).

• Hyphenation: ne‧gar
• IPA^(key): /neˈɡaɾ/, [n̪eˈɡaɾ]

negar

1. to deny

   Synonyms: dehar, rirong

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [nəˈɣa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [neˈɣaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

Inherited from Old Catalan negar, from Latin negāre (“refuse”).

negar (first-person singular present nego, first-person singular preterite neguí, past participle negat); root stress: (Central, Valencian, Balearic) /e/

1. to deny (not allow)
2. to deny (assert that something is not true)
3. to refuse

   Synonym: refusar

Inherited from Old Catalan negar, from Latin necāre (“murder”), which specialized to the sense of 'drown' in Romance. Cognate with French noyer.

negar (first-person singular present nego, first-person singular preterite neguí, past participle negat); root stress: (Central, Valencian, Balearic) /e/

1. (transitive, reflexive) to drown
2. (transitive, reflexive) to flood

   Synonym: inundar

• “negar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “negar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “negar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “negar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old Galician-Portuguese negar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin negāre, present active infinitive of negō.

• IPA^(key): [neˈɣaɾ]

negar (first-person singular present nego, first-person singular preterite neguei, past participle negado)

1. to deny
2. to withhold; to deprive

• renegar

• “negar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “negar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “negar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “negar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
• “negar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “negar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “negar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Vulgar Latin *adnecāre, present active infinitive of *adnecō (“I drown”), derived from necō (“I kill”). Compare Spanish anegar, Romanian îneca, French noyer.

• Western IPA^(key): /(a)neˈɡa/
• Eastern IPA^(key): /(a)neˈɡa(ɾ)/

negar

1. (transitive) to drown

From Latin negāre, present active infinitive of negō (“I deny”).

• Western IPA^(key): /neˈɡa/
• Eastern IPA^(key): /neˈɡa(ɾ)/

negar

1. (transitive) to deny, to not allow

From Old Galician-Portuguese negar, from Latin negāre.

• Hyphenation: ne‧gar

negar (first-person singular present nego, first-person singular preterite neguei, past participle negado)

1. to deny
   1. to disallow, to prohibit (to not allow)

      Synonyms: proibir, recusar

      Antonyms: autorizar, consentir, deixar, permitir

   2. to assert that something is not true

      Synonyms: desdizer, desmentir

      Antonyms: afirmar, confirmar

2. (reflexive) to refuse
3. to contest (call into question)

   Synonym: contestar

   Antonym: aceitar

4. (card games) to refuse to let go of a card

• negar a
• negável

Inherited from Latin negāre.

• IPA^(key): /neˈɡaɾ/ [neˈɣ̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ne‧gar

negar (first-person singular present niego, first-person singular preterite negué, past participle negado)

1. to deny
2. (reflexive, with a when followed by an infinitive) to refuse

   Me niego a creer que él dijera eso.

   I refuse to believe [that] he said that.

• negar la mayor

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