# gerar
## Galician
### Verb

gerar (first-person singular present gero, first-person singular preterite gerei, past participle gerado, reintegrationist norm)
* reintegrationist spelling of xerar

#### Conjugation

$^1$Less recommended.

### References

* “gerar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈɡe.rar/, [ˈɡɛrär]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒe.rar/, [ˈd͡ʒɛːrär]

### Verb

gerar
* first-person singular future passive indicative of gerō "I shall be carried, I shall be borne; I shall be worn"
* first-person singular present passive subjunctive of gerō "may I be carried, may I be borne; may I be worn"

## Old English
### Etymology

From ġe- +‎ *rār, from Proto-West Germanic *rair, from Proto-Germanic *rairą, from Proto-Indo-European *rey- (“to scream; roar; howl; bark”). More at Old English rārian (“to roar”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /jeˈrɑːr/

### Noun

ġerār n
* roar, howl
    Synonyms: rārung, ġeþēot, grymmettung
    Ic nāht ōþres ne ġehȳrde būtan lēona grymetunge and wulfa ġerār ― I heard nothing other but the roar of lions and howling of wolves

#### Descendants

* Middle English: rore
** English: roar
** Scots: rare, rair, rore

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese gẽerar, from Latin generāre.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ʒeˈɾa(ʁ)/ [ʒeˈɾa(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ʒeˈɾa(ʁ)/ [ʒeˈɾa(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ʒeˈɾa(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ʒeˈɾa(ʁ)/ [ʒeˈɾa(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ʒeˈɾa(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ʒɨˈɾaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ʒɨˈɾaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ʒɨˈɾa.ɾi/
* (Northeast Brazil) IPA: [ʒe.ˈɾa(h)]
* Hyphenation: ge‧rar

### Verb

gerar (first-person singular present gero, first-person singular preterite gerei, past participle gerado)
* (transitive) to generate
    Synonyms: criar, fazer, produzir
* (transitive) to beget

#### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese.

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:gerar.

#### Related terms

* degenerar
* general
* genro
* geração
* geracional
* gerador
* geral
* gerativo
* geratriz

### Further reading

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

## Romanian
### Etymology

From ger (“cold weather”) +‎ -ar, possibly influenced by Latin Iānuārius (cf. Vulgar Latin jenuārius, compare Italian gennaio); a shift between -n- and -r- is found in some other Romanian words. Compare also the doublet ghenar, from Greek Γενάρης (Genáris).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /d͡ʒeˈrar/

### Noun

gerar
* (popular/folk usage) January (first month of the Gregorian calendar)
    Synonym: ianuarie (standard/most common)