usar

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usar

1. (transitive) to use

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “usar”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

From Latin ūsus, Medieval Latin usāre.

usar (first-person singular indicative present uso, past participle usáu)

1. to use

   Synonym: utilizar

• usu

From Latin ūsus, Medieval Latin usāre.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /uˈza/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /uˈzaɾ/
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

usar (first-person singular present uso, past participle usat)

1. (transitive) to use
2. (transitive) to employ

• emprar
• utilitzar
• fer servir

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

From Latin ūsus, Medieval Latin usāre.

usar (first-person singular present uso, first-person singular preterite usei, past participle usado)

1. to use

   Synonym: utilizar

• uso

usar

1. to use

From Latin ūsus, the perfect participle of ūtor (“I use”), Medieval Latin usāre.

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usar

1. to use
2. to employ

From Proto-Germanic *unseraz.

ūsar

1. ours (possessive for usa)

From Old Portuguese usar, husar, from Latin ūsus (“use, custom, skill, habit”), from the past participle stem of ūtor (“to use”), Medieval Latin usāre.

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /uˈza(h)/
• (Rural Central Brazil) IPA^(key): /uˈza(ɹ)/
• Hyphenation: u‧sar

usar (first-person singular present uso, first-person singular preterite usei, past participle usado)

1. (transitive with de or with no preposition (more common)) to use; to utilise; to employ; to make use of
   • 2003, J. K. Rowling, Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix, Rocco, page 436:

     Você pode usar sua varinha para tentar me desarmar, ou para se defender de qualquer outra maneira que consiga pensar. ― You may use your wand to try to disarm me, or to defend yourself in any other way that you can think of.

   Deves usar o martelo para arrancar os pregos. ― You must use the hammer to pull the nails off.

   Synonyms: empregar, utilizar, fazer uso de

2. (transitive) to sport (to wear, wield or have as a notable feature)

   Hipsters usam barba comprida. ― Hipsters sport long beards.

3. (transitive) to use (to consume habitually)

   Alguns favelados usam craque. ― Some slum-dwellers use crack.

4. (archaic or dialectal, auxiliary with a verb in the impersonal infinitive) to be used to (to have the habit of)

   Ele usava dormir de dia. ― He used to sleep during the day.

   Synonym: costumar

5. inflection of usar:
   1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive
   2. first/third-person singular personal infinitive

For quotations using this term, see Citations:usar.

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

From uso +‎ -ar, from Latin ūsus.

• IPA^(key): /uˈsaɾ/ [uˈsaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: u‧sar

usar (first-person singular present uso, first-person singular preterite usé, past participle usado)

1. (transitive) to use

   Usa la fuerza, Luke! ― Use the force, Luke!

   Synonym: utilizar

2. (transitive) to wear

   Synonym: llevar

3. (transitive) to consume

   Synonym: consumir

4. (reflexive) to be used
5. (reflexive) to be fashionable

• usarse

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