queimar

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese queimar, from a Vulgar Latin *caimāre (possibly influenced by Greek), from Latin cremāre, present active infinitive of cremō, from Proto-Indo-European *ker (“to burn”). Compare Portuguese queimar, Asturian and Spanish quemar, also Catalan cremar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kejˈmaɾ/

Verb

1. to burn
2. to scorch
3. to cause a burn on the skin
4. to burn out
   • 1302, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. Vigo: Galaxia, page 55:

     por que meu fillo Esteuoo Pérez me mandou desonrrar per çinco ueçes, seendo eu doente en Sande, sobre los meus diñeiros, que auían dauer a Esteuoo Uaca e a Pero de Canpo e a Esteuo de Çerracoes e a Ferrán Pérrez e a Esteuoo de Prado, e por que poso a maao eno coytelo pera uiir contra min, e porque uerteu a Johán Fernandes do Paaço, meu home, una cuba de viño ante min, e porque disse que él faría cousa á que non porría consello e me queymarían o que auía o me farían cousa que todo o mundo en falaría

     because my son, Estevo Pérez, ordered to dishonour me five times: while I was sick in Sande; about my money, which was due to Estevo Vaca, and to Pedro de Campo, and to Estevo de Zarracós, and to Ferrán Pérez and to Estevo de Prado; and because he put his hand in his knife for coming against me; and because he spilled a barrel of wine to Xohán Fernánde do Pazo, my man, before me; and because he said that he would do things without counsel and he would burn out whatever I could have and he would do to me things everybody would speak about thence

5. (intransitive) to be spicy or hot
6. (figuratively) to exhaust
7. (figuratively) to annoy, tire
8. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of queimar
9. first/third-person singular personal infinitive of queimar

Related terms

• queima
• queimada
• queimador
• queimadura

 

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “queimar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “queym”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “queimar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “queimar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “queimar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese queimar, from a Vulgar Latin *caimāre (possibly influenced by Greek), from Latin cremāre, present active infinitive of cremō, from Proto-Indo-European *ker (“to burn”). Doublet of cremar.

Compare Galician queimar and Spanish quemar, also Catalan cremar.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kejˈma(ʁ)/ [keɪ̯ˈma(h)]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kejˈma(ʁ)/ [keɪ̯ˈma(h)]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /kejˈma(ɾ)/ [keɪ̯ˈma(ɾ)]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /kejˈma(ʁ)/ [keɪ̯ˈma(χ)]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kejˈma(ɻ)/ [keɪ̯ˈma(ɻ)]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐjˈmaɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐjˈmaɾ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /kejˈmaɾ/
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /kejˈmaɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /keˈma.ɾi/

• Hyphenation: quei‧mar

Verb

1. to burn
   1. (intransitive) to be on fire, to be consumed by flames

      Synonyms: arder, pegar fogo

   2. (transitive) to set on fire
   3. (intransitive, figurative) to feel hot
2. (figuratively) to harm one's reputation or image
3. Template:pt-verb-form-of

Related terms

• carvão
• queimação
• queimada
• queimado

 

Further reading

• “queimar”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “queimar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
• “queimar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “queimar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “queimar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “queimar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024