gerar

gerar (first-person singular present gero, first-person singular preterite gerei, past participle gerado, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of xerar

• “gerar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡe.rar/, [ˈɡɛrär]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒe.rar/, [ˈd͡ʒɛːrär]

gerar

1. first-person singular future passive indicative of gerō  "I shall be carried, I shall be borne; I shall be worn"
2. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of gerō  "may I be carried, may I be borne; may I be worn"

From ġe- +‎ *rār, from Proto-West Germanic *rair, from Proto-Germanic *rairą, from Proto-Indo-European *rey- (“to scream; roar; howl; bark”). More at Old English rārian (“to roar”).

• IPA^(key): /jeˈrɑːr/

ġerār n

1. roar, howl

   Synonyms: rārung, ġeþēot, grymmettung

   Ic nāht ōþres ne ġehȳrde būtan lēona grymetunge and wulfa ġerār ― I heard nothing other but the roar of lions and howling of wolves

• Middle English: rore
  • English: roar
  • Scots: rare, rair, rore

From Old Galician-Portuguese gẽerar, from Latin generāre.

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): [ʒe.ˈɾa(h)]
• Hyphenation: ge‧rar

gerar (first-person singular present gero, first-person singular preterite gerei, past participle gerado)

1. (transitive) to generate

   Synonyms: criar, fazer, produzir

2. (transitive) to beget

For quotations using this term, see Citations:gerar.

• “gerar”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “gerar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
• “gerar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “gerar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “gerar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “gerar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

 

From ger (“cold weather”) +‎ -ar, possibly influenced by Latin Iānuārius (cf. Vulgar Latin jenuārius, compare Italian gennaio); a shift between -n- and -r- is found in some other Romanian words. Compare also the doublet ghenar, from Greek Γενάρης (Genáris).

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒeˈrar/

gerar

1. (popular/folk usage) January (first month of the Gregorian calendar)

   Synonym: ianuarie (standard/most common)