instituir

Borrowed from Latin īnstituere, with normal change of conjugation to -ir.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ins.ti.tuˈi]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ins.ti.tuˈiɾ]

instituir (first-person singular present institueixo, first-person singular preterite instituí, past participle instituït)

1. (transitive) to found, to institute, to establish

   Synonyms: fundar, establir

• institució

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

Learned borrowing from Latin īnstituere, with change of conjugation.

instituir (first-person singular present instituo, first-person singular preterite instituí, past participle instituído)

1. to found, institute, establish

• instituição

• “instituir”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “instituir”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

From Latin īnstituō.

• IPA^(key): /instiˈtwiɾ/ [ĩns.t̪iˈt̪wiɾ]

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• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: ins‧ti‧tuir

instituir (first-person singular present instituyo, first-person singular preterite instituí, past participle instituido)

1. (transitive) to found, to institute, to establish

   Synonyms: fundar, establecer

• “instituir”, 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