parir

From Latin parere, present active infinitive of pariō.

parir (first-person singular indicative present paro, past participle paríu)

1. to give birth
2. to make up; to think up

• partu

From Latin parere, present active infinitive of pariō.

parir (first-person singular present pareixo, past participle parit)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to give birth

   Synonym: donar a llum

2. (transitive, colloquial) to make, think up

   Synonyms: crear, fer

   ben parit ― well thought out

• part

• néixer

• “parir” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “parir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “parir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “parir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese parir (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin parere, present active infinitive of pariō.

• IPA^(key): [paˈɾiɾ]

parir (first-person singular present pairo, first-person singular preterite parín, past participle parido)

1. to give birth

   Synonym: dar a luz

2. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of parir
3. first/third-person singular personal infinitive of parir

• parición

• parto

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

Borrowed from Sicilian pariri, from Latin parēre (“to seem”).

• IPA^(key): /paˈriːr/

parir m (plural pariri)

1. advice, counsel

   Synonym: (less common) kunsill

From Latin parere, present active infinitive of pariō (“I bear, I give birth to”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to bring forth”).

• IPA^(key): /pa.ˈɾiɾ/

parir

1. to give birth, to bear
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 122 (facsimile):

     […] bẽeita tu / eſ mia ſennor que pariſte iheſu / xp̃o.

     […] you are blessed, my Lady, who bore Jesus Christ.

• Galician: parir
• Portuguese: parir

From Old Portuguese parir (“to give birth”), from Latin parere (“to bear, to give birth to”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to bring forth”).

• Homophone: pari (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: pa‧rir

parir (no stressed present indicative or subjunctive, first-person singular preterite pari, past participle parido)

1. (slightly derogatory) to give birth (to a human baby)

   Synonym: dar à luz

   • 1694, Bartolomeu do Quental, Sermoens, page 123:

     Com eſte exemplo provou o Anjo à Senhora, que podia conceber, & parir […]

     With this example the Angel proved to the Lady, that she could conceive and give birth […]

2. to give birth (to an animal)

   A cadela pariu três cachorros. ― The dog gave birth to three pups.

3. (transitive, figurative) to produce

   Synonyms: produzir, criar

• parideira

• parteira
• parto

• nascer

• “parir” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
• “parir” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

From Latin parere, present active infinitive of pariō.

• IPA^(key): /paˈɾiɾ/ [paˈɾiɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: pa‧rir

parir (first-person singular present paro, first-person singular preterite parí, past participle parido)

1. (transitive, intransitive, vulgar in some areas) to give birth

   Synonym: dar a luz

2. (transitive, colloquial) to think up; imagine
3. (transitive) to explain

• Parir is more commonly used in Spain, and is rarely used by Central- and South-Americans, as they believe parir is vulgar, in the sense that it is used to describe when animals give birth. Instead, they use the phrase dar a luz (literally “to give to light”).

• parir a medias
• parirla
• poner a parir

• parto

• nacer

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