querer
Portuguese
/kɨ.ˈɾeɾ/, /ke.ˈɾe(ʁ)/
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) to want; to wish; to desire
- to want ... to to want or demand a given thing to occur
- (auxiliary) to want to to feel the need to do something
- (by extension) to mind; why don’t ... used to make polite requests
- (figurative) to be almost; to be about to; to be likely to
- to wish to want a particular condition to be applied to someone or something
- (ditransitive) to want to want someone or something to reach a given state
- (transitive) to love to have affection for
- (figurative) to need to be improvable with
Etymology
Inherited from Old Portuguese querer 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
- 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
- quaerō Latin
- requiro Latin
- chiedere Italian
- malquerer Spanish, Castilian
- querencia Spanish, Castilian
- querendón Spanish, Castilian
- querer Spanish, Castilian
- malquerer Portuguese
- クエリ Japanese
- querer Galician
- kueri Indonesian
- querer Old Portuguese
- querer Asturian
- ke Papiamentu
- kere Papiamentu
- kier Papiamentu
- kré Kabuverdianu
- querer Aragonese