plorar

From Latin plōrāre (“cry out”).

plorar

1. to cry

Inherited from Old Catalan plorar, from Latin plōrāre (“cry out”). Compare Occitan plorar, Spanish llorar, French pleurer.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [pluˈɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ploˈɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ploˈɾaɾ]

plorar (first-person singular present ploro, first-person singular preterite plorí, past participle plorat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/

1. to cry, to weep

   Synonym: llagrimejar

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

Inherited from Latin plōrāre.

plorar (ORB, broad)

1. to cry, weep

• pleurer in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• plorar in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 730: “perché lo fai piangere?” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France^[1] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 1033: “pleurer” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “plōrare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 9: Placabilis–Pyxis, page 76

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plorar (present tense ploras, past tense ploris, future tense ploros, imperative plorez, conditional plorus)

1. (intransitive) to cry, weep

• ridar

• ploregar

From Old Occitan plorar, from Latin plōrāre (“cry out”). Compare French pleurer, Catalan plorar, Spanish llorar.

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plorar

1. to cry, to weep

From Latin plōrāre.

• IPA^(key): /ploˈɾaɾ/ [ploˈɾaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: plo‧rar

plorar (first-person singular present ploro, first-person singular preterite ploré, past participle plorado)

1. (intransitive, rare) to cry, to weep

   El bebé ploró toda la noche.

   The baby cried all night.

2. (transitive, rare) to mourn

   Synonym: lamentar

• “plorar”, 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