imperar

Borrowed from Latin imperāre. Also borrowed from English imperious, French impérieux, Italian imperioso, Spanish imperioso.

• IPA^(key): /impeˈrar/

imperar (present imperas, past imperis, future imperos, conditional imperus, imperative imperez)

1. (transitive) to order, direct, enjoin, bid, command (not military)
2. (transitive) to rule, have sway

Borrowed from Latin imperāre (“command, govern”).

• Hyphenation: im‧pe‧rar

imperar (first-person singular present impero, first-person singular preterite imperei, past participle imperado)

1. (intransitive) to reign, rule

• imperador

• “imperar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “imperar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “imperar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “imperar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “imperar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “imperar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from Latin imperāre (“command, govern”); Cf. the dialectal emprar and semi-learned Old Spanish emperar.

• IPA^(key): /impeˈɾaɾ/ [ĩm.peˈɾaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: im‧pe‧rar

imperar (first-person singular present impero, first-person singular preterite imperé, past participle imperado)

1. (intransitive) to reign, rule

   Synonym: regir

2. (intransitive) to prevail
3. (intransitive) to be in command, be emperor

• “imperar”, 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