pedir

• pidir

From Old Galician-Portuguese pedir, from Vulgar Latin *petīre, from Latin petere (“ask, request”).

• IPA^(key): [pɪˈðiɾ]

pedir (first-person singular present pido, third-person singular present pide, first-person singular preterite pedín, past participle pedido)
pedir (first-person singular present pido or peço, first-person singular preterite pedim or pedi, past participle pedido, reintegrationist norm)

1. to ask for; to request; to order

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “pedir”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “pedir”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pedir”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pedir”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pedir”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• pidir (obsolete, now eye dialect)
• pidi, pedi (eye dialect, Brazil)

From Old Galician-Portuguese pedir, from Vulgar Latin *petīre, from Latin petere (“ask, request”). Compare Romanian peți, Italian pezzire.

• Hyphenation: pe‧dir

pedir (first-person singular present peço, first-person singular preterite pedi, past participle pedido)

1. (transitive or intransitive) to ask for; to request (to express the need or desire for something) [transitive or with por ‘something’, along with para ‘from someone’; or with que (+ subjunctive clause) ‘for someone to do something’]

   Nenhum de vocês precisa pedir permissão para ninguém. ― Neither of you has to ask anyone for permission.

   Peço que vocês parem de fazer barulho. ― I ask you to stop making noise.

   Se está com dificuldade, peça por ajuda. ― If you are having difficulties, ask for help.

2. (transitive) to order (to request a product or service)

   pedir uma pizza ― to order a pizza

3. (transitive or intransitive) to ask for; to invite (to be in obvious need of) [transitive or with por ‘something’]

   Estas janelas estão pedindo uma limpeza! ― These windows are asking for a cleaning!

4. (transitive) to charge (to assign a given price to something) [with por ‘for something’]

   Synonym: cobrar

   O vendedor pediu dez mil pelo carro. ― The salesman charged ten thousand for the car.

• pedinte

• Kabuverdianu: pidi

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

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *petīre, from Latin petere (“ask, request”). Compare English petition.

• IPA^(key): /peˈdiɾ/ [peˈð̞iɾ]

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• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: pe‧dir

pedir (first-person singular present pido, first-person singular preterite pedí, past participle pedido)

1. (transitive) to ask for something

   Él le pidió agua al camarero.

   He asked the waiter for water.

   ¿Puede pedirle el dinero?

   Can you ask her for the money?

2. to request someone else to do something

   Pido que ustedes estén ahí a la una.

   I ask that you be there at one o'clock.

   • 2016 November, “La raza de gatos más cariñosa”, in Frontera.info‎^[1]:

     Si no les das el cariño suficiente acudirán a pedírtelo por lo que necesitan dueños que puedan prestarles la suficiente atención.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. (transitive) to order something

   Voy a pedir una hamburguesa.

   I am going to order a burger.

4. (transitive) to call, call in (e.g. to call for help, to call for backup, to call in a favor)
5. to plead

• “pedir”, 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
• “pedir”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
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