semblar

Inherited from Old Catalan semblar, from Late Latin similāre, a verb based on Latin similis (“alike”). Compare Occitan semblar, French sembler.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [səmˈbla]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [semˈblaɾ]

semblar (first-person singular present semblo, first-person singular preterite semblí, past participle semblat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencian) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/

1. (impersonal) to seem, look

   Synonyms: parèixer, semblar se

   Sembla que vagi a ploure.

   It seems that it's going to rain.

2. to look like, resemble

   Synonym: assemblar-se

• semblant
• semblança

• → Spanish: semblar

• “semblar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “semblar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024

Borrowed from English seem, French sembler, Italian sembrare, ultimately from Late Latin similāre, present active infinitive of similō.

semblar (present tense semblas, past tense semblis, future tense semblos, imperative semblez, conditional semblus)

1. (intransitive) to seem, appear (to be)

From Late Latin similāre, a verb derived from Latin similis (“similar”). Compare Old French sembler.

semblar

1. seem; to appear

• Occitan: semblar
• → Italian: sembrare, sembiare, semblare
• → Portuguese: sembrar
• → Spanish: semblar (archaic)

Borrowed from Old Catalan or Old Occitan semblar.

• IPA^(key): /semˈblaɾ/ [sẽmˈblaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: sem‧blar

semblar (first-person singular present semblo, first-person singular preterite semblé, past participle semblado)

1. (intransitive, archaic) to look like, resemble, seem

   Synonym: semejar

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