prevaricar

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin praevāricārī, present active infinitive of praevāricor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [pɾə.βə.ɾiˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [pɾə.və.ɾiˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [pɾe.va.ɾiˈkaɾ]
• Homophone: prevaricà
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

Verb

prevaricar (first-person singular present prevarico, first-person singular preterite prevariquí, past participle prevaricat)

1. (intransitive) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Related terms

• prevaricació

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin praevāricārī, present active infinitive of praevāricor.

Verb

1. to fail or refuse to obey certain laws, rules or obligations

   Synonym: descumprir

   1. (law) to commit the crime of prevarication, which consists in not complying with laws
2. to betray
3. (transitive) to corrupt

Related terms

• prevaricação

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin praevāricārī, present active infinitive of praevāricor. Cognate with English prevaricate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɾebaɾiˈkaɾ/ [pɾe.β̞a.ɾiˈkaɾ]

Verb

prevaricar (first-person singular present prevarico, first-person singular preterite prevariqué, past participle prevaricado)

1. to prevaricate

   Synonyms: andarse con rodeos, andarse por las ramas, tergiversar

2. (law) to commit perjury
3. to fall short performing, or to neglect, one's duties
4. (colloquial) to go mad

Conjugation

    Conjugation of prevaricar (c-qu alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			prevaricar
gerund			prevaricando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		prevaricado		prevaricada
		plural		prevaricados		prevaricadas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	prevarico	prevaricastú prevaricásvos	prevarica	prevaricamos	prevaricáis	prevarican
	imperfect	prevaricaba	prevaricabas	prevaricaba	prevaricábamos	prevaricabais	prevaricaban
	preterite	prevariqué	prevaricaste	prevaricó	prevaricamos	prevaricasteis	prevaricaron
	future	prevaricaré	prevaricarás	prevaricará	prevaricaremos	prevaricaréis	prevaricarán
	conditional	prevaricaría	prevaricarías	prevaricaría	prevaricaríamos	prevaricaríais	prevaricarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	prevarique	prevariquestú prevariquésvos2	prevarique	prevariquemos	prevariquéis	prevariquen
	imperfect (ra)	prevaricara	prevaricaras	prevaricara	prevaricáramos	prevaricarais	prevaricaran
	imperfect (se)	prevaricase	prevaricases	prevaricase	prevaricásemos	prevaricaseis	prevaricasen
	future1	prevaricare	prevaricares	prevaricare	prevaricáremos	prevaricareis	prevaricaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		prevaricatú prevaricávos	prevarique	prevariquemos	prevaricad	prevariquen
	negative		no prevariques	no prevarique	no prevariquemos	no prevariquéis	no prevariquen

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

Related terms

• prevaricación

Further reading

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