aturar

Inherited from Latin obtūrāre.

• IPA^(key): /atuˈɾa(ɾ)/
• Syllabification: a‧tu‧rar
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

aturar

1. (transitive) to stop; to stop with (to cause something to stop moving or progressing)
   • May-June 2013, Fuellas, issue 215, page 6:

     ¡Aturemos os retallos!

     Let’s stop the cuts!

aturar (first-person singular indicative present aturo, past participle aturáu)

1. (dated) to endure, suffer (esp. work)

   Synonyms: endurar, aguantar, caltener

2. to last
3. to make constipated

Inherited from Latin obtūrāre.

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

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• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

aturar (first-person singular present aturo, first-person singular preterite aturí, past participle aturat)

1. (ambitransitive, reflexive) to stop, to halt (keep from moving)

   Synonym: deturar

• atur
• aturada
• aturament
• aturat

• “aturar”, 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
• “aturar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “aturar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “aturar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• rautar, traurà

From Old Galician-Portuguese aturar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), probably from Latin obtūrāre (“obturate”), but compare atoar (“to obstruct”).

• IPA^(key): /atuˈɾaɾ/

aturar (first-person singular present aturo, first-person singular preterite aturei, past participle aturado)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to put up with; to stand; to endure

   Xa non aturo os seus abusos! Mexan por nós e hai que dicir que chove!

   I can't stand their abuses no more! Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining!

   • c. 1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 487:

     Et para esto entendeu que auia cada ãno a tirar sua oste et aturar muyto a guerra

     And to this end he understood that he would have to take out his army each year and to endure the war

2. (archaic) to persevere
3. (pronominal) to conform

• aturábel
• aturadamente (archaic)

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “aturar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “atura”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “aturar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “aturar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “aturar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “aturar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin obtūrāre.

aturar

1. to stop (prevent from moving)

• atturar (obsolete)

From Old Galician-Portuguese aturar, from Latin obtūrāre. Compare Spanish atorar. Cf. the borrowed doublet obturar.

• Homophone: aturá (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: a‧tu‧rar

aturar (first-person singular present aturo, first-person singular preterite aturei, past participle aturado)

1. (transitive) to put up with; to stand; to endure; to suffer through (to go through an unpleasant experience, especially without complaining or trying to stop it)
   • 2006, Vanessa de Oliveira, O diário de Marise, Matrix Editora, page 173:

     Aquela foi a última gota do último barril que eu aturei dela.

     That was the last straw from the last haystack that I put up with from her.

2. (intransitive) to resist, to persevere

• “aturar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “aturar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “aturar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “aturar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “aturar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Inherited from Latin obtūrāre.

• IPA^(key): /atuˈɾaɾ/ [a.t̪uˈɾaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧tu‧rar

aturar (first-person singular present aturo, first-person singular preterite aturé, past participle aturado)

1. (transitive) to close, to block

• “aturar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024