ponderar

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ponderāre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [pun.dəˈɾa]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic) [pon.dəˈɾa]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [pon.deˈɾaɾ]
  • Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

Verb

ponderar (first-person singular present pondero, first-person singular preterite ponderí, past participle ponderat); root stress: (Central, Valencian, Balearic) /e/

  1. (transitive) to consider, ponder, weigh
  2. (transitive) to praise, talk up
    • 1928, Alexandre Galí, La mesura objectiva del treball escolar:
      No ens cansarem mai de ponderar la importància de la condició de materialitat documental.
      We will never tire of praising the importance of the condition of documentary material.

Conjugation

Further reading

Galician

Etymology

From Latin ponderāre, present active infinitive of ponderō.

Verb

ponderar (first-person singular present pondero, first-person singular preterite ponderei, past participle ponderado)

  1. (transitive) to ponder, consider

Conjugation

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin ponderāre.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /põ.deˈɾa(ʁ)/ [põ.deˈɾa(h)]
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /põ.deˈɾa(ɾ)/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /põ.deˈɾa(ʁ)/ [põ.deˈɾa(χ)]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /põ.deˈɾa(ɻ)/
 
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /põ.dɨˈɾaɾ/
    • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /põ.dɨˈɾa.ɾi/

  • Hyphenation: pon‧de‧rar

Verb

ponderar (first-person singular present pondero, first-person singular preterite ponderei, past participle ponderado)

  1. (mathematics) to weight (to assign weights to individual values)
  2. to ponder; to wonder (to think of deeply)

Conjugation

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin ponderāre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pondeˈɾaɾ/ [põn̪.d̪eˈɾaɾ]
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Syllabification: pon‧de‧rar

Verb

ponderar (first-person singular present pondero, first-person singular preterite ponderé, past participle ponderado)

  1. (transitive) to ponder, consider
    Synonyms: sopesar, considerar
  2. (transitive) to weight

Conjugation

Further reading

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