precipitar

Borrowed from Latin praecipitāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pɾə.si.piˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [pɾe.si.piˈtaɾ]

precipitar (first-person singular present precipito, first-person singular preterite precipití, past participle precipitat)

1. (transitive) to cause to fall, to throw down
2. (transitive) to hasten, to precipitate
3. (reflexive) to get ahead of oneself; to act hastily

• precipitació

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

Borrowed from English precipitate, French précipiter, Italian precipitare, Spanish precipitar. The reflexive sense “to hurry” derives from French, Spanish and English.

• IPA^(key): /pre.t͡si.piˈtar/

precipitar (present precipitas, past precipitis, future precipitos, conditional precipitus, imperative precipitez)

1. (transitive) to cause to fall, to drop
2. (reflexive) to hurry

From Latin praecipitāre (“to cast down, to throw headlong”).

• Hyphenation: pre‧ci‧pi‧tar

precipitar (first-person singular present precipito, first-person singular preterite precipitei, past participle precipitado)

1. to precipitate (all senses)
2. (reflexive) to get ahead of oneself

• precipitação

Borrowed from Latin praecipitāre (“to cast down, to throw headlong”).

• IPA^(key): /pɾeθipiˈtaɾ/ [pɾe.θi.piˈt̪aɾ] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /pɾesipiˈtaɾ/ [pɾe.si.piˈt̪aɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: pre‧ci‧pi‧tar

precipitar (first-person singular present precipito, first-person singular preterite precipité, past participle precipitado)

1. to precipitate
2. (reflexive) to rush in, to rush into, to jump the gun
3. (reflexive) to plummet

• “precipitar”, 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