precaver

• precavir

From Latin praecavēre.

• IPA^(key): /pɾekaˈbeɾ/ [pɾe.kɑˈβ̞eɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ

precaver (first-person singular present precavo, first-person singular preterite precavín, past participle precavido)

1. (transitive) to prevent
2. (pronominal) to take precautions

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “precaver”, 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), “precaver”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “precaver”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Latin praecavēre.

• Hyphenation: pre‧ca‧ver

precaver (no stressed present indicative or subjunctive, first-person singular preterite precavi, past participle precavido)

1. (transitive) to prevent
2. (pronominal) to take precautions

Sometimes speakers create additional inflected forms based on the paradigms of ver or vir, such as precavejo or precavenho, though this is considered nonstandard.

From Latin praecavēre.

• IPA^(key): /pɾekaˈbeɾ/ [pɾe.kaˈβ̞eɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: pre‧ca‧ver

precaver (first-person singular present precavo, first-person singular preterite precaví, past participle precavido)

1. (transitive) to prevent

• “precaver”, 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