separar

Borrowed from Latin separāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [sə.pəˈɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [se.paˈɾaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

separar (first-person singular present separo, first-person singular preterite separí, past participle separat)

1. to separate

• “separar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “separar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “separar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “separar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Learned borrowing from Latin separāre, present active infinitive of sēparō. Doublet of xebrar.

separar (first-person singular present separo, first-person singular preterite separei, past participle separado)

1. (transitive) to separate (to disunite from a group or mass; to disconnect)

   Synonym: apartar

• “separar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• “separar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Borrowed from English separate, French séparer, German separieren, Italian separare, Spanish separar.

• IPA^(key): /se.paˈrar/

separar (present tense separas, past tense separis, future tense separos, imperative separez, conditional separus)

1. (transitive) to separate

separar

1. to separate

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separar

1. to separate

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 635.

Borrowed from Latin separāre. Cf. the inherited dialectal/archaic xebrar, still used in Galicia.

• (Portugal, natural speech) IPA^(key): [spɐˈɾaɾ]
• Hyphenation: se‧pa‧rar

separar (first-person singular present separo, first-person singular preterite separei, past participle separado)

1. (transitive) to separate
   • 2011, Edelvino Razzolini Filho, Administração da Pequena e Média Empresa, IESDE Brasil S.A., →ISBN, page 44:

     Convém, aqui, lembrar o ditado popular: amigos, amigos; negócios à parte. Caso o empreendedor saiba separar a amizade dos negócios, certamente estará em melhores condições para o sucesso.

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2. (transitive, intransitive or pronominal) to divorce (to dissolve a marriage) [with de ‘of someone’]

   Synonym: divorciar

• “separar”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “separar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
• “separar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “separar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “separar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “separar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Borrowed from Latin separāre. Cf. the inherited Old Spanish xebrar, exebrar, dessebrar.

• IPA^(key): /sepaˈɾaɾ/ [se.paˈɾaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: se‧pa‧rar

separar (first-person singular present separo, first-person singular preterite separé, past participle separado)

1. (transitive) to separate, to detach (to disunite from a group or mass; to disconnect)

   Synonym: apartar

   Separó los huevos en diferentes tamaños.

   He separated the eggs into different sizes.

2. (transitive) to break up, to split up (a couple or group that the subject of the sentence is not a part of)

   Cariño, ¡despierta! Tu madre siempre ha estado tratando de separarnos.

   Babe, wake up! Your mother has always been trying to break us up.

3. (reflexive) to break up, to split up, to separate (e.g. a relationship, a band, a fight)
4. (pronominal) to split off, to split up, to split apart, to separate
5. (pronominal) to part, to detach

   separarse de ― to detach from

6. (reflexive) to detach (oneself)

• “separar”, in Diccionario 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