querer
Spanish
verb
Definitions
- to desire, to want, to want to
- to love; to be fond of
- (as an indication of a request) would you ... ?
- to mean to, to try to
- (reciprocal) to love each other
Etymology
Inherited from Latin quaerō (seek, look for, desire, I ask).
Origin
Latin
quaerō
Gloss
seek, look for, desire, I ask
Concept
Semantic Field
Possession
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
欲
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antiquery English
- counterquery English
- interquery English
- intraquery English
- multiquery English
- overquery English
- querencia English
- queriable English
- querier English
- queriest English
- querieth English
- querist English
- query English
- queryable English
- querysome English
- requery English
- subquery English
- conquiro Latin
- disquiro Latin
- exquiro Latin
- inquiro Latin
- perquiro Latin
- quaere Latin
- quaerere Latin
- quaerō Latin
- requiro Latin
- chiedere Italian
- quérir French
- aquerenciarse Spanish, Castilian
- malquerer Spanish, Castilian
- querencia Spanish, Castilian
- querendón Spanish, Castilian
- malquerer Portuguese
- querer Portuguese
- クエリ Japanese
- kueri Indonesian
- querar Ido
- querir Middle French
- querer Old Portuguese
- querer Asturian
- cirî Friulian
- ke Papiamentu
- kere Papiamentu
- kier Papiamentu
- kré Kabuverdianu
- querer Aragonese
- quérir Sabir