afirmar

• IPA^(key): /afiɾˈmaɾ/, [a.fiɾˈmaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: a‧fir‧mar

afirmar (first-person singular indicative present afirmo, past participle afirmáu)

1. to assert

Borrowed from Latin affirmāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.firˈma]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [a.fiɾˈmaɾ]

afirmar (first-person singular present afirmo, first-person singular preterite afirmí, past participle afirmat)

1. to confirm

• reafirmar

• afirmació

• “afirmar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “afirmar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “afirmar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “afirmar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Attested since 1287. From Latin affirmāre.

• IPA^(key): [afiɾˈmaɾ]

afirmar (first-person singular present afirmo, first-person singular preterite afirmei, past participle afirmado)

1. to confirm, assure
2. to affirm, declare
3. to make firm

• afirmación
• afirmativo

• “afirmar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “afirm” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “afirmar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “afirmar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “afirmar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “afirmar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• “afirmar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

• affirmar (obsolete)

Borrowed from Latin affirmāre.

• Hyphenation: a‧fir‧mar

afirmar (first-person singular present afirmo, first-person singular preterite afirmei, past participle afirmado)

1. (transitive with que) to state; to declare; to affirm (to make a declaration)

   Synonyms: declarar, asseverar

2. (transitive) to confirm; to attest (to affirm to be correct, true or genuine)

   Synonyms: confirmar, assegurar, certificar

   Antonym: negar

3. (transitive) to consolidate (to make firm, secure)

   Synonyms: fixar, consolidar

4. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to earn one’s place; to rise (to earn a reputation or fame)

• reafirmar

• “afirmar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Borrowed from Latin affirmāre.

• IPA^(key): /afiɾˈmaɾ/ [a.fiɾˈmaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧fir‧mar

afirmar (first-person singular present afirmo, first-person singular preterite afirmé, past participle afirmado)

1. (transitive) to state, assert

   Synonym: declarar

2. (takes a reflexive pronoun, fencing) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

• “afirmar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014