averiguar

• aviriguar (Pravia)

• IPA^(key): /abeɾiˈɡwaɾ/ [a.β̞e.ɾiˈɣ̞waɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: a‧ve‧ri‧guar

averiguar (first-person singular indicative present averiguo, past participle averiguáu)

1. to figure out

   Synonyms: pescanciar, pescudar

2. (reflexive) to agree on something

   Synonyms: casar, avenir, combalachar

• “averiguar” in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana. Xosé Lluis García Arias. →ISBN.

From Late Latin vērificō, vērificāre (“present as if true; verify, prove true”), a semi-learned term. More in the entry of the modern descendant.

• IPA^(key): /aβeɾiˈɡwaɾ/

averiguar

1. present something as true, make something seem true
   • 1251, anonymous, Calila e Dimna 12:^[1]

     Ca el omne faldrido, et sabio, et manso, si quisiere desfazer la verdat et averiguar la mentira, a las vezes fazerlo ía así commo el buen pintor que pinta las imágenes en la pared que semejan a omne que sale della.

     Because a clever man, who is wise and of calm temper, if he intends to undo truth and present a lie as if true, he will do it then like a good painter painting such good images on a wall that it seems a man is coming out of it.

2. verify something, determine whether it is true

• Spanish: averiguar

Ultimately from Latin vērificāre. Doublet of verificar.

• Hyphenation: a‧ve‧ri‧guar

averiguar (first-person singular present (Brazilian Portuguese) averíguo or (European Portuguese) averiguo, first-person singular preterite averiguei, past participle averiguado)

1. (transitive) to investigate

Inherited from Old Spanish averiguar, from Late Latin vērificāre as a semi-learned term, with the prefix a- from Latin ad-. According to Coromines and Pascual, citing Rufino José Cuervo, it is first attested in a Fuero Juzgo from 1240.

• IPA^(key): /abeɾiˈɡwaɾ/ [a.β̞e.ɾiˈɣ̞waɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧ve‧ri‧guar

averiguar (first-person singular present averiguo, first-person singular preterite averigüé, past participle averiguado)

1. (transitive) to find out, figure out, work out, determine

   Synonym: encontrar

   No me digas la respuesta. Déjame averiguarla.

   Don't tell me the answer. Let me figure it out.

2. (transitive) to dig up, to investigate

   Synonym: investigar

   Voy a averiguar quién hizo la travesura.

   I'm going to dig up who was the one that did the mischief.

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983) “vero”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume V (Ri–X), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 790
• “averiguar”, 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