requerir

Borrowed from Latin requīrere, with normal change of conjugation to -ir.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [rə.kəˈɾi]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [re.keˈɾiɾ]
• Rhymes: -i(ɾ)

requerir (first-person singular present requereixo, first-person singular preterite requerí, past participle requerit)

1. (transitive) to require, need

   Synonym: exigir

2. (transitive, law) to demand

   Synonym: intimar

• requeriment

• requisició
• requisit

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

requerir

1. to require
   • 1595, Michel de Montaigne, Essais:

     La justice requeroit que les Romains eussent raison de ce forfaict ; la difficulté en empéchoit les voyes ordinaires

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

From Latin requīrere.

• IPA^(key): /rekeˈɾiɾ/ [re.keˈɾiɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: re‧que‧rir

requerir (first-person singular present requiero, first-person singular preterite requerí, past participle requerido)

1. to require, need

   Requiere de mucho trabajo. ― It requires a lot of work.

2. to ask for, send for, call for

• “requerir”, 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