cerrar

cerrar (first-person singular indicative present cerro, past participle cerráu)

1. alternative form of zarrar

• zarrar

From Old Galician-Portuguese serrar, çerrar, sarrar, çarrar, from Vulgar Latin serrāre (“close, shut”), from Late Latin serō, serāre (“fasten, bolt”), from Latin sera (“bolt, cross-bar”).

• (standard) IPA^(key): /θɛˈraɾ/
• (western) IPA^(key): /sɛˈraɾ/

cerrar (first-person singular present cerro, first-person singular preterite cerrei, past participle cerrado)

1. (transitive) to close, shut
2. (transitive) to seal
3. (transitive) to enclose
4. (intransitive) to darken, dim
5. (intransitive) to conclude
6. (pronominal) to close, shut

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cerrar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cerrar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “cerrar”, 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), “cerrar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “cerrar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cerrar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Galician-Portuguese serrar, çerrar, sarrar, çarrar, from Vulgar Latin serrāre (“close, shut”), from Late Latin serāre (“to fasten, to bolt”), from Latin sera (“bolt, cross-bar”). Cognate with Galician and Spanish cerrar, French serrer and Italian serrare.

• Homophone: serrar (most dialects)
• Hyphenation: cer‧rar

cerrar (first-person singular present cerro, first-person singular preterite cerrei, past participle cerrado)

1. to close, shut
2. to seal

• Largely displaced by fechar in modern Portuguese; although the adjective cerrado continues to be used, mostly with figurative meanings.

• “cerrar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “cerrar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “cerrar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “cerrar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

Inherited from Old Spanish, from Vulgar Latin serrāre (“close, shut”), from Late Latin serāre (“fasten, bolt”), from Latin sera (“bolt, cross-bar”). Compare English serry/serried.

• IPA^(key): /θeˈraɾ/ [θeˈraɾ] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /seˈraɾ/ [seˈraɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ce‧rrar
• Homophone: (Latin America) serrar

cerrar (first-person singular present cierro, first-person singular preterite cerré, past participle cerrado)

1. (transitive) to close, to shut

   Antonym: abrir

   No olvides cerrar la puerta.

   Don't forget to close the door.

2. (transitive) to shut down, to close down

   Antonym: abrir

   Quieren cerrar tu negocio.

   They're trying to shut your business down.

3. (transitive) to turn off, to shut off (to rotate a tap or valve so as to interrupt the outflow of liquid or gas)

   cerrar el grifo ― to turn off the tap

   cerrar la luz ― to turn off the lights

4. (transitive) to enclose
5. to lock, to lock up
6. to seal, to close (e.g. a deal, a breach, a rift)
7. to close up, to close off (e.g. a wound)
8. to close, to conclude, to end
9. (reflexive) to close (itself) (e.g., a store, a door)
10. (reflexive) to close off (oneself)
11. (linguistics) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
    • 2018, Hortensia Martinez, Fonetica y fonología histórica, Apuntes de Fonética y Fonología Españolas‎^[1]:

      La /o/ a veces se cierra a /u/ por influencia de una /j/: cognatum>cuñado; cochleare>cuchara; dormiamus>durmamos

      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• To specify that you mean to "lock" and not just "close" or "shut", include con llave following cerrar.

• “cerrar”, 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