governar

Inherited from Old Catalan governar, from Latin gubernāre, from Ancient Greek κυβερνάω (kubernáō).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ɡu.βərˈna]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ɡo.vərˈna]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ɡo.veɾˈnaɾ]

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governar (first-person singular present governo, first-person singular preterite governí, past participle governat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/

1. to govern

• govern
• governació
• governador

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

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin gubernāre, from Ancient Greek κυβερνάω (kubernáō).

• IPA^(key): /ɡu.verˈna/

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governar

1. to govern
2. (nautical) to steer, pilot

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• govèrn

From Old Galician-Portuguese governar, from Latin gubernāre, from Ancient Greek κυβερνάω (kubernáō).

• Hyphenation: go‧ver‧nar

governar (first-person singular present governo, first-person singular preterite governei, past participle governado)

1. to govern

• governador
• governo