procurar

From Latin prōcūrō.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /pɾo.kuˈɾa/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /pɾu.kuˈɾa/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /pɾo.kuˈɾaɾ/

procurar (first-person singular present procuro, past participle procurat)

1. to seek, to try, to endeavor
2. to procure, to provide

• procura

• procuració
• procurador

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

From Old Portuguese procurar, from Late Latin prōcūrāre (“to manage, to administer”), from Latin prō + cūrō (“to take care; to cure; to manage”). Cognate of English procure.

• Hyphenation: pro‧cu‧rar

procurar (first-person singular present procuro, first-person singular preterite procurei, past participle procurado)

1. (transitive) to search; to seek; to look for
   • 2005, Matthew D. Bauer, O Poder de Cura da Acupressura e da Acupuntura, Editora Pensamento, →ISBN, page 142:

     Se você sentir que a acupuntura incomoda, discuta o assunto com o seu acupunturista. Se não ficar satisfeito com o que ele lhe disser, procure outro acupunturista que use agulhas mais finas.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

   Synonym: buscar

2. to reach out (attempt to initiate communication)
3. (auxiliary with a verb in the impersonal infinitive) to try; to attempt

   Procuro sempre evitar comida apimentada. ― I always try to avoid spicy food.

   Synonym: tentar

4. (intransitive) to work as a procurator (attorney or agent)
5. inflection of procurar:
   1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive
   2. first/third-person singular personal infinitive

This is a false friend of English procure. The Portuguese word means primarily ‘to look for’, while the English word means primarily ‘to obtain’ and can be translated into Portuguese with obter or conseguir.

• “procurar” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “procurar” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “procurar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “procurar” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
• “procurar” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “procurar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

From Late Latin prōcūrāre, present active infinitive of prōcūrō (“to manage, to administer”), from Latin prō + cūrō. Cognate with English procure.

• IPA^(key): /pɾokuˈɾaɾ/ [pɾo.kuˈɾaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: pro‧cu‧rar

procurar (first-person singular present procuro, first-person singular preterite procuré, past participle procurado)

1. (catenative) to try, to attempt, to endeavor
2. to make sure, to assure
3. to obtain, to acquire

   Synonyms: adquirir, obtener

4. to work as a procurator (attorney or agent)
5. (reflexive) to secure

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