moderar

Borrowed from Latin moderārī (“regulate, restrain, moderate”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [mu.ðəˈɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [mo.ðəˈɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [mo.ðeˈɾaɾ]

moderar (first-person singular present modero, first-person singular preterite moderí, past participle moderat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. (transitive) to moderate (to reduce the excessiveness of)

• moderació
• moderador
• moderat

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

Borrowed from Latin moderārī (“to regulate, to restrain, to moderate”).

• Hyphenation: mo‧de‧rar

moderar (first-person singular present modero, first-person singular preterite moderei, past participle moderado)

1. (transitive) to moderate (to reduce the excessiveness of)

   Synonyms: temperar, regular, controlar

2. (transitive) to moderate (to act as the moderator of)

• moderação
• moderado
• moderador

• “moderar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

From Latin moderārī (“regulate, restrain, moderate”).

• IPA^(key): /modeˈɾaɾ/ [mo.ð̞eˈɾaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: mo‧de‧rar

moderar (first-person singular present modero, first-person singular preterite moderé, past participle moderado)

1. (transitive) to moderate, to temper (to reduce the excessiveness of)

   Synonym: templar

• “moderar”, 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