semellar

From Vulgar Latin *similiāre, a verb derived from Latin similis (“similar”). Compare Catalan semblar and Spanish asemejar, semejar.

• IPA^(key): /semeˈʎa(ɾ)/
• Syllabification: se‧me‧llar
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

semellar

1. to resemble

   Synonyms: pareixer, pareixer-se

• “semejar”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

From Old Galician-Portuguese semellar, from Vulgar Latin *similiāre, a verb derived from Latin similis (“similar”). Compare Portuguese semelhar, Spanish semejar.

• IPA^(key): /semeˈʎaɾ/

semellar (first-person singular present semello, first-person singular preterite semellei, past participle semellado)

1. (intrantive, impersonal) to seem

   Semella que vai chover

   It seems that it is going to rain

   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 689:

     Et alí cresçerõ toruões et coriscos et rrelánpagos tã grandes et tã brauos et tã desmesurados que semellaua que todo o mũdo quiría peresçer.

     And there grew such large thunders and rain and lightning, so wild and so boundless, that it seemed that the whole world wanted to perish

2. (transitive) to resemble; to imitate

   Anoxado semella unha fera

   He resembles a fear when angry

3. (pronominal) to resemble, to look alike

   Synonyms: imitar, parecer

   Os irmáns seméllanse moito

   The brother look alike very much

4. (pronominal) to think, to suspect

   Synonyms: coidar, pensar

   Seméllame que vai chover

   I think that it is going to rain

   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 467:

     seméllame, fillo, que ora son cõpridos de tj os soños que eu sonaua et as uisiões que uij́a et as coytas grãdes que sofría ẽno coraçõ

     it seems to me, my son, that now you have fulfilled the dreams I dreamed and the visions I envisioned and [finished] the big sorrows I suffered in my heart

• asemellar
• semellábel
• semellante
• semellanza

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “semellar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “semel”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “semellar”, 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), “semellar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “semellar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Vulgar Latin *similiāre, a verb derived from Latin similis (“similar”).

• IPA^(key): /se.me.ˈʎaɾ/

semellar

1. to resemble
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 384 (facsimile):

     ⁊ a outra dazur era / coor mui marauilloſa / que ao çeo ſemella […]

     And the other was blue / a marvelous colour / which resembles the sky […]

• semellante
• semllança

• Galician: semellar
• Portuguese: semelhar