cuidar
Spanish
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) to take care of, to care for
- (transitive) to look after, to look out for, to keep an eye on, to guard, to protect, to watch over, to watch out for implies doing so with care
- (transitive) to mind, to watch, to pay attention
- to babysit
- to keep, to sit on e.g. one's house, keeping the place in order
- (transitive) to nurse, to nurture, to tend, to tend to, to attend to e.g. nurse back to health, to tend a garden or yard, tend to a herd or flock
- (reflexive) to take care, to take care of, to look after, to care for oneself
- (reflexive) to be careful of/with, to beware, to watch out for, to be wary of + l
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish coidar inherited from Latin cogitāre.
Origin
Latin
cogitāre
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- cogitate English
- cogitateth English
- cogitator English
- cogitare, cogito Latin
- cogitāre Latin
- cōgitāre Latin
- cōgitāt- Latin
- cuider French
- coche Spanish, Castilian
- cuidacoches Spanish, Castilian
- descuidar Spanish, Castilian
- cuidar Portuguese
- descuidar Portuguese
- cuidier Old French
- porcuidier Old French
- cugeta Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- kujtim Albanian
- kujtoj Albanian
- cuidar Old Portuguese
- cuidar Old Occitan
- coidar Old Spanish
- kuida Papiamentu
- *kugitɔnjœ Proto-Albanian
- kuda Kabuverdianu
- kuida Kabuverdianu
- cueudai Bourguignon
- kuda Guinea-Bissau Creole