parir

From Latin parere.

parir (first-person singular indicative present paro, past participle paríu)

1. to give birth

• partu

Inherited from Latin parere, with normal change of conjugation to -ir.

parir (first-person singular present pareixo, first-person singular preterite parí, past participle parit)

1. (ambitransitive) to give birth

   Synonym: donar a llum

2. (transitive, colloquial) to make, think up

   Synonyms: crear, fer

   ben parit ― well thought out

• part

• néixer

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

From Old Galician-Portuguese parir (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin parere.

• IPA^(key): [paˈɾiɾ]

parir (first-person singular present pairo, first-person singular preterite parín, past participle parido)
parir (first-person singular present paro, first-person singular preterite parim or pari, past participle parido, reintegrationist norm)

1. to give birth

   Synonym: dar a luz

• parición

• parto

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

Borrowed from Sicilian pariri, from Latin parēre (“to seem”).

• IPA^(key): /paˈriːr/

parir m (plural pariri)

1. advice, counsel

   Synonym: (less common) kunsill

From Latin parere (“to bear, to give birth to”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to bring forth”).

• IPA^(key): /pa.ˈɾiɾ/

parir

1. to give birth, to bear
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 122 (facsimile):

     […] bẽeita tu / eſ mia ſennor que pariſte iheſu / xp̃o.

     […] you are blessed, my Lady, who bore Jesus Christ.

• Galician: parir
• Portuguese: parir

From Old Galician-Portuguese parir (“to give birth”), from Latin parere (“to bear, to give birth to”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to bring forth”).

• Homophone: pari (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: pa‧rir

parir (no stressed present indicative or subjunctive, first-person singular preterite pari, past participle parido)

1. (ambitransitive) to give birth

   Synonym: dar à luz

   A cadela pariu três cachorros. ― The dog gave birth to three pups.

   • 1653, Bartolomeu do Quental, “Sermam da Immaculada Conceicam […]”, in Sermoens […], volume 2, Lisbon: Officina de Miguel Deslandes, published 1694, page 123, column 1:

     Com eſte exemplo provou o Anjo à Senhora, que podia conceber, & parir ficando Virgem […]

     With this example the Angel proved to the Lady that she could conceive and give birth staying virgin […]

   • 1986, Mário Vaz Filho, director, Um Pistoleiro Chamado Papaco, São Paulo: Olympus Filmes:

     Não, gracinha, falei com a puta que te pariu.

     No, sweetie, I was talking to the whore that gave birth to you.

2. (transitive, figurative) to produce

   Synonyms: produzir, criar

• Usually used to refer to animals; when used to refer to people it has a somewhat offensive or derogatory connotation, like saying knocked up instead of pregnant in English. The nonderogatory word used for people is dar à luz (literally “to give to light”).

• parideira
• puta que pariu

• parteira
• parto

• nascer

• “parir”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “parir”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

From Latin parere.

• IPA^(key): /paˈɾiɾ/ [paˈɾiɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: pa‧rir

parir (first-person singular present paro, first-person singular preterite parí, past participle parido)

1. (ambitransitive, vulgar in some areas) to give birth

   Synonym: dar a luz

   Yo tengo que irme al hospital, mi novia está pariendo

   I have to go to the hospital, my girlfriend is giving birth.

2. (transitive, colloquial) to think up; imagine
3. (transitive) to explain

• Parir is more commonly used in Spain, and is rarely used by Central- and South-Americans, as they believe parir is vulgar, in the sense that it is used to describe when animals give birth. Instead, they use the phrase dar a luz (literally “to give to light”).

• nacer

• “parir”, 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