firmar (first-person singular indicative presentfirmo,past participlefirmáu)

1. tosign

Learned borrowing fromLatinfirmāre.

• IPA^(key):(Central,Balearic)[firˈma]
• IPA^(key):(Valencia)[fiɾˈmaɾ]
• Rhymes:-a(ɾ)

firmar (first-person singular presentfirmo,first-person singular preteritefirmí,past participlefirmat)

1. (transitive) tosign

   Synonym:signar

• firma

• firmant

• “firmar” inDiccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició,Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

FromOld Galician-Portuguesefirmar, fromLatinfirmāre(“to make firm”).

• IPA^(key):[fiɾˈmaɾ]

firmar (first-person singular presentfirmo,first-person singular preteritefirmei,past participlefirmado)

1. tosign (formerly, to make firm by adding one's name)

   Synonym:asinar

   • 1441, J. L. Novo Cazón, editor,El priorato santiaguista de Vilar de Donas en la Edad Media (1194-1500), A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page365:

     esta carta de foro et de quel eu, Joan Loppes, fize etfirmey et syney de meu signo

     this contract charter that I, Xoán López, made andsigned [with my name] and signed with my sign

• firma

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane,María Álvarez de la Granja,Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “firmar”, inDicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “firmar”, inCorpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “firmar”, inDicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “firmar”, inDicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña:Royal Galician Academy,2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández,Ernesto Xosé González Seoane,María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “firmar”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “firmar” inDicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “firmar”, inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega,→ISSN

• Hyphenation:fir‧mar

firmar (first-person singular presentfirmo,first-person singular preteritefirmei,past participlefirmado)

1. tosign
2. tostabilize
3. tofix

FromLatinfirmāre(“make firm, confirm”).Doublet ofhirmar.

• IPA^(key):/fiɾˈmaɾ/[fiɾˈmaɾ]

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• Rhymes:-aɾ
• Syllabification:fir‧mar

firmar (first-person singular presentfirmo,first-person singular preteritefirmé,past participlefirmado)

1. tosign

   Él no quisofirmar el papel y por ende, no se pudo hacer nada.

   He didn't wantto sign the paper and as a result, nothing could be done.

• “firmar”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10