semellar

From Vulgar Latin *similiāre, a verb derived from Latin similis (“similar”).

• IPA^(key): /semeˈʎa(ɾ)/
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
• Syllabification: se‧me‧llar

semellar

1. to resemble

• “semejar”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

From Old Galician-Portuguese semellar, from Vulgar Latin *similiāre, a verb derived from Latin similis (“similar”). Compare Portuguese semelhar, Spanish semejar.

• IPA^(key): /semeˈʎaɾ/

semellar (first-person singular present semello, first-person singular preterite semellei, past participle semellado)

1. (intrantive, impersonal) to seem

   Semella que vai chover

   It seems that it is going to rain

   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 689:

     Et alí cresçerõ toruões et coriscos et rrelánpagos tã grandes et tã brauos et tã desmesurados que semellaua que todo o mũdo quiría peresçer.

     And there grew such large thunders and rain and lightning, so wild and so boundless, that it seemed that the whole world wanted to perish

2. (transitive) to resemble; to imitate

   Anoxado semella unha fera

   He resembles a fear when angry

3. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to resemble, to look alike

   Synonyms: imitar, parecer

   Os irmáns seméllanse moito

   The brother look alike very much

4. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to think, to suspect

   Synonyms: coidar, pensar

   Seméllame que vai chover

   I think that it is going to rain

   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 467:

     seméllame, fillo, que ora son cõpridos de tj os soños que eu sonaua et as uisiões que uij́a et as coytas grãdes que sofría ẽno coraçõ

     it seems to me, my son, that now you have fulfilled the dreams I dreamed and the visions I envisioned and [finished] the big sorrows I suffered in my heart

• asemellar
• semellábel
• semellante
• semellanza

• “semellar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “semel” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “semellar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “semellar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “semellar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Vulgar Latin *similiāre, a verb derived from Latin similis (“similar”).

• IPA^(key): /se.me.ˈʎaɾ/

semellar

1. to resemble
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 384 (facsimile):

     ⁊ a outra dazur era / coor mui marauilloſa / que ao çeo ſemella […]

     And the other was blue / a marvelous colour / which resembles the sky […]

• semellante
• semllança

• Galician: semellar
• Portuguese: semelhar