cerrar

cerrar (first-person singular indicative present cerro, past participle cerráu)

1. Alternative form of zarrar

• zarrar

From Galician-Portuguese serrar, çerrar, sarrar, çarrar, from Vulgar Latin *serrāre (“close, shut”), from Late Latin serō, serāre (“fasten, bolt”), from Latin sera (“bolt, cross-bar”).

• (standard) IPA^(key): /θɛˈraɾ/
• (western) IPA^(key): /sɛˈraɾ/

cerrar (first-person singular present cerro, first-person singular preterite cerrei, past participle cerrado)

1. (transitive) to close, shut
2. (transitive) to seal
3. (transitive) to enclose
4. (intransitive) to darken, dim
5. (intransitive) to conclude
6. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to close, shut

• “cerrar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “cerrar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “cerrar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cerrar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Old Portuguese serrar, çerrar, sarrar, çarrar, from Vulgar Latin *serrāre (“close, shut”), from Late Latin serāre, present active infinitive of serō (“fasten, bolt”), from Latin sera (“bolt, cross-bar”). Cognate with Galician cerrar, Spanish cerrar, French serrer and Italian serrare.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨ.ˈʁaɾ/
• Hyphenation: cer‧rar

cerrar (first-person singular present indicative cerro, past participle cerrado)

1. to close, shut
2. to seal
3. first-person singular (eu) personal infinitive of cerrar
4. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) personal infinitive of cerrar
5. first-person singular (eu) future subjunctive of cerrar
6. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) future subjunctive of cerrar

From Old Spanish, from Vulgar Latin *serrāre (“close, shut”), from Late Latin serāre, present active infinitive of serō (“fasten, bolt”), from Latin sera (“bolt, cross-bar”).

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /θeˈraɾ/
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /seˈraɾ/
• Homophone: serrar (non-Castilian)
• Hyphenation: ce‧rrar

cerrar (first-person singular present cierro, first-person singular preterite cerré, past participle cerrado)

1. (transitive) to close
2. (transitive) to shut
3. (transitive) to enclose

• Rule: e becomes an ie in stressed syllables.

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