rumar

From rumo (“course; destination”) +‎ -ar, from Spanish rumbo (“course”), from Latin rhombus, from Ancient Greek ῥόμβος (rhómbos, “rhombus, spinning top”), from ῥέμβω (rhémbō, “to turn around”).

• Hyphenation: ru‧mar

rumar (first-person singular present rumo, first-person singular preterite rumei, past participle rumado)

1. (intransitive) to head (move in a specified direction)

   Synonyms: dirigir-se, ir

2. (transitive, nautical) to veer a watercraft to a specified direction

• rombo
• rumo

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

rumar

1. (transitive) to rummage or search
2. (transitive) to root or grub (the soil)

* Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.