precipitar

Borrowed from Latin praecipitāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pɾə.si.piˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [pɾe.si.piˈtaɾ]

precipitar (first-person singular present precipito, first-person singular preterite precipití, past participle precipitat)

1. (transitive) to cause to fall, to throw down
2. (transitive) to hasten, to precipitate
3. (reflexive) to get ahead of oneself; to act hastily

• precipitació

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

Borrowed from English precipitate, French précipiter, Italian precipitare, Spanish precipitar. The reflexive sense “to hurry” derives from French, Spanish and English.

• IPA^(key): /pre.t͡si.piˈtar/

precipitar (present precipitas, past precipitis, future precipitos, conditional precipitus, imperative precipitez)

1. (transitive) to cause to fall, to drop
2. (reflexive) to hurry

From Latin praecipitāre (“to cast down, to throw headlong”).

• Hyphenation: pre‧ci‧pi‧tar

precipitar (first-person singular present precipito, first-person singular preterite precipitei, past participle precipitado)

1. to precipitate (all senses)

• precipitação

Borrowed from Latin praecipitāre (“to cast down, to throw headlong”).

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /pɾeθipiˈtaɾ/ [pɾe.θi.piˈt̪aɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /pɾesipiˈtaɾ/ [pɾe.si.piˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: pre‧ci‧pi‧tar

precipitar (first-person singular present precipito, first-person singular preterite precipité, past participle precipitado)

1. to precipitate
2. (reflexive) to rush in, to rush into, to jump the gun
3. (reflexive) to plummet

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