vivir

Aragonese

Etymology

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Verb

vivir

1. to live

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Asturian

Etymology

From the Latin vīvere (“to live”), present active infinitive of vīvō.

Verb

vivir

1. to live

Related terms

• vida
• vivienda
• vivu

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese viver (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin vīvere (“to live”), present active infinitive of vīvō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biˈβiɾ/

Verb

1. to live
   • 1418, Á. Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 145:

     E logo o dito Conçello e alcalles e regidores e homes bõos, jurados sobre ditos diseron que obedesçian e obedesçieron aa dita carta real do dito señor rey con a mayor reverençia que podian e devian e con moy grande omildade como a carta e mandado de seu rey e de seu señor natural a o qual Deus mantena e leixe vivir e reynar por moytos tienpos

     And then said Council and mayors and councilors and good men, said jurors, said that they obey and obeyed this royal order of said Lord King with the largest reverence they could and ought, and with very large humility, as charter and order of their king and natural lord, God maintains and lets live and reign for much time

2. to dwell, reside

   Synonyms: habitar, morar, residir

3. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of vivir
4. first/third-person singular personal infinitive of vivir

Related terms

• vivo

References

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• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “viv”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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• “vivir” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Ido

Verb

(deprecated template usage) vivir

1. past infinitive of vivar

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Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish bivir, viver, vevir, bevir, from Latin vīvere (“to live”), present active infinitive of vīvō, from Proto-Italic *gʷīwō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷíh₃weti (“to live, be alive”). Compare Ladino bivir, Portuguese viver.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biˈbiɾ/ [biˈβ̞iɾ]

Noun

vivir m (plural vivires)

1. life; lifestyle

Derived terms

• de mal vivir

Verb

1. (intransitive) to live; to be alive
2. (intransitive) to make a living, to live (on)

   Vive en migas, nada más.

   He lives on crumbs, nothing more.

3. (intransitive) to live, reside, inhabit

   Vive en la casa roja.

   She lives in the red house.

   La pobrecita vive con dos hermanas crueles.

   The poor girl lives with two cruel sisters.

4. (transitive) to experience, to live through
   • 2014, Pablo Martín de Santa Olalla Saludes, El laberinto italiano, Editorial Liber Factory (→ISBN), page 9

     Mientras nosotros tuvimos que vivir una dictadura de casi cuarenta años que nos dejó prácticamente aislados del resto de Europa, […]

     While we had to live through a dictatorship of almost forty years that left us practically isolated from the rest of Europe, […]

Usage notes

• Like many intransitive verbs in both Spanish and English, including English live, the verb vivir can take a cognate object; hence vivir la vida loca "to live the crazy life", which is roughly synonymous with vivir locamente "to live crazily".

Derived terms

• bien predica quien bien vive
• vivir del cuento

 

Related terms

• vida
• vivaz
• vivencia
• viveza
• vívido
• vivienda
• viviente
• vivisección
• vivo

 

Further reading

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