demandar

Learned borrowing from Latin demandāre. Doublet of demanar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [də.mənˈda]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [de.manˈdaɾ]

demandar (first-person singular present demando, first-person singular preterite demandí, past participle demandat)

1. (transitive, archaic) to ask, to demand
2. (transitive, law) to petition
3. (transitive, law) to start legal proceedings against someone, to sue

• demanda

• “demandar”, 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

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese demandar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin dēmandāre. Compare Portuguese demandar.

• IPA^(key): [d̪e.mãnˈð̞ar]

demandar (first-person singular present demando, first-person singular preterite demandei, past participle demandado)

1. (archaic) to look for
2. to ask for; to demand
   • 1920, Manuel Vidal, Contos galegos d'antano e d'hogano, page 144:

     Logo en canto vosté saíu ó patio a demandar socorro, saíu o defunto da cuba, e ganou a escaleira da trapa, que dá a sala. Dempois en canto os seus sobriños foron xunto de vosté a faguer a comedia de ver o que había na cuba, el visteuse e saíu a campo travesa

     Then, as soon as you left for the yard asking for help, the deceased exited the barrel and came to the stairs of the trapdoor, which opens to the hall. After this, as soon as you nephews went by your side to make the comedy on what was inside the barrel, he got dressed and ran across the open field.

3. (transitive, law) to sue

   Non sería quen de acoitelar un home; máis ben o demandaría nun xulgado.

   She would not stab a man; she would sue him in the law courts.

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

Borrowed from French demander, Italian domandare. Also found in English demand and Spanish demandar. Compare Esperanto demandi.

• IPA^(key): /demanˈdar/

demandar (present demandas, past demandis, future demandos, conditional demandus, imperative demandez)

1. (transitive) to ask for, make a request

• demando (“request, asking; demand”)
• demandanto (“asker, applicant”)
• demandajo (“thing asked for, requested”)
• kontredemando (“counterquestion”)

• postular

• Progreso II (in Ido), 1909–1910, page 78, 167
• Progreso III (in Ido), 1910–1911, page 224

From French demander.

demandar

1. to ask

From Old Spanish demandar, from Latin demandāre.

demandar

1. to ask (a question)
   • 2019 May 22, Silvio & Eyal Ovadya, “Un evenimyento, una dicha/un proverbo”, in Şalom‎^[1]:

     Me demando: de ke no azesh este konserto en Estanbol. Es mas kolay de ir i vinir.

     She asked me: why don't you do this concert in Istanbul. It's easier to go and come.

• demanda

From Old Occitan demandar, from Latin demandāre. Attested from the 12th century.^[1]

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demandar

1. to ask (pose a question)
2. to ask for; to request

• demandaire
• damandador
• demandant

• demanda
• mandar

From Latin demandāre.

demandar

1. to ask for; to request

• mandar

• Occitan: demandar

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese demandar, from Latin dēmandāre. Compare Galician demandar.

• Hyphenation: de‧man‧dar

demandar (first-person singular present demando, first-person singular preterite demandei, past participle demandado)

1. to demand
2. (law) to file suit

• demanda

Inherited from Old Spanish demandar, from Latin demandāre.

• IPA^(key): /demanˈdaɾ/ [d̪e.mãn̪ˈd̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: de‧man‧dar

demandar (first-person singular present demando, first-person singular preterite demandé, past participle demandado)

1. to insist, ask (for something), request
2. (law) to sue, file suit, implead

   demandar en juicio ― to sue

3. to take charge (of something)

• “demandar”, 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