assignar

Borrowed from Latin assignāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.siŋˈna]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.siŋˈnaɾ]

assignar (first-person singular present assigno, first-person singular preterite assigní, past participle assignat)

1. to assign, fix

• assignatura

• assignació

• “assignar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “assignar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “assignar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “assignar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

assignar (first-person singular present assigno, first-person singular preterite assignei, past participle assignado)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of assinar.
   • 1930 November 25, “Uma nomeação na pasta do Exterior”, in Diario Carioca‎^[1], volume III, number 740, page 3:

     O chefe do governo provisorio assignou, hontem, um decreto na pasta do Exterior, nomeando Antonio Mary Ulrich, para auxiliar de consulado.

     The head of the provisional government signed, yesterday, a decree in the Foreign Affairs department, nominating Antonio Mary Ulrich for consulate assistant.