deprecar

Galician

Etymology

From Latin dēprecārī, present active infinitive of dēprecor (“I avert, ward off, deprecate”).

Verb

1. to entreat, implore
2. to deprecate

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin dēprecārī, present active infinitive of dēprecor (“I avert, ward off, deprecate”). The computing sense is a calque of English deprecate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.pɾe.ˈka(ɾ)/, /de.pɾe.ˈka(χ)/
• Hyphenation: de‧pre‧car

Verb

1. to beg, to supplicate

   Synonyms: implorar, suplicar

2. (anglicism, chiefly computing) to declare something obsolescent; to recommend against a function, technique, command, etc. that still works but has been replaced

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin dēprecārī, present active infinitive of dēprecor (“to avert, ward off, deprecate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /depɾeˈkaɾ/ [d̪e.pɾeˈkaɾ]

Verb

deprecar (first-person singular present depreco, first-person singular preterite deprequé, past participle deprecado)

1. to entreat, implore
2. to deprecate

Conjugation

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

infinitive			deprecar
gerund			deprecando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		deprecado		deprecada
		plural		deprecados		deprecadas
		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	depreco	deprecastú deprecásvos	depreca	deprecamos	deprecáis	deprecan
	imperfect	deprecaba	deprecabas	deprecaba	deprecábamos	deprecabais	deprecaban
	preterite	deprequé	deprecaste	deprecó	deprecamos	deprecasteis	deprecaron
	future	deprecaré	deprecarás	deprecará	deprecaremos	deprecaréis	deprecarán
	conditional	deprecaría	deprecarías	deprecaría	deprecaríamos	deprecaríais	deprecarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	depreque	deprequestú deprequésvos2	depreque	deprequemos	deprequéis	deprequen
	imperfect (ra)	deprecara	deprecaras	deprecara	deprecáramos	deprecarais	deprecaran
	imperfect (se)	deprecase	deprecases	deprecase	deprecásemos	deprecaseis	deprecasen
	future1	deprecare	deprecares	deprecare	deprecáremos	deprecareis	deprecaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		deprecatú deprecávos	depreque	deprequemos	deprecad	deprequen
	negative		no depreques	no depreque	no deprequemos	no deprequéis	no deprequen

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

Further reading

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