tardar

From Old Catalan tardar, from Latin tardāre.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /təɾˈda/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /tərˈda/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /taɾˈdaɾ/
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

tardar (first-person singular present tardo, past participle tardat)

1. (intransitive) to wait; to delay
   • 2009, Jean Grave, Les Aventures d'en Nono:

     Si és així, em sembla que la meva no tardará a presentar-se.

     If it is like this, it seems to me that mine won't delay in presenting itself

• trigar

• tardança
• tardaner

• tard
• tarda
• tardor

• “tardar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese tardar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin tardo.

• IPA^(key): [taɾˈðaɾ]

tardar (first-person singular present tardo, first-person singular preterite tardei, past participle tardado)

1. (intransitive) to be late; to delay oneself

   Non tarda o que ven, se o que espera paciencia ten (proverb) ― He who comes is not late, if the one who awaits patience has

tardar m (plural tardares)

1. delay

   Synonyms: demora, espera, tardanza

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

tardar

1. to dawdle

From Latin tardāre, present active infinitive of tardō (“I delay”).

• IPA^(key): /t̪aɾ.ˈd̪aɾ/

tardar

1. (intransitive) to be late; to delay oneself
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 26 (facsimile):

     e logo chegar..a alma tomar demões q̇ a leuarõ mui toſte ſẽ tardar

     and soon devils arrived, seizing the soul, and took it very quickly without delay

• demorar

• Portuguese: tardar

From Old Portuguese tardar, from Latin tardāre (“to delay”).

• (Caipira) IPA^(key): [tɐɹˈda]

tardar (first-person singular present tardo, first-person singular preterite tardei, past participle tardado)

1. to be late; to delay oneself

   Synonym: demorar

• o mais tardar
• tardar a
• sem mais tardar

• tarde
• tardio
• tardo

From Old Spanish tardar, from Latin tardāre.

• IPA^(key): /taɾˈdaɾ/ [t̪aɾˈð̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: tar‧dar

tardar (first-person singular present tardo, first-person singular preterite tardé, past participle tardado)

1. to delay
2. to last
3. to be late

• tarde
• tardío
• tardo

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