# promulgar
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin prōmulgāre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [pɾu.mulˈɣa]
* IPA: (Balearic) [pɾo.mulˈɣa]
* IPA: (Valencia) [pɾo.mulˈɣaɾ]
* Homophone: promulgà
* Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

### Verb

promulgar (first-person singular present promulgo, first-person singular preterite promulguí, past participle promulgat)
* (transitive) to promulgate

#### Related terms

* promulgació

### Further reading

* “promulgar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “promulgar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “promulgar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “promulgar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Ido
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin prōmulgō, English promulgate, French promulguer, German promulgieren, Italian promulgare, Spanish promulgar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /promulˈɡar/

### Verb

promulgar (present tense promulgas, past tense promulgis, future tense promulgos, imperative promulgez, conditional promulgus)
* (transitive) to promulgate

#### Conjugation
## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Latin prōmulgāre.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /pɾo.muwˈɡa(ʁ)/ [pɾo.muʊ̯ˈɡa(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /pɾo.muwˈɡa(ʁ)/ [pɾo.muʊ̯ˈɡa(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /pɾo.muwˈɡa(ɾ)/ [pɾo.muʊ̯ˈɡa(ɾ)]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /pɾo.muwˈɡa(ʁ)/ [pɾo.muʊ̯ˈɡa(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /pɾo.muwˈɡa(ɻ)/ [pɾo.muʊ̯ˈɡa(ɻ)]
* (Portugal) IPA: /pɾu.mulˈɡaɾ/ [pɾu.muɫˈɣaɾ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /pɾu.mulˈɡaɾ/ [pɾu.muɫˈɣaɾ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /pɾu.mulˈɡa.ɾi/ [pɾu.muɫˈɣa.ɾi]
* Hyphenation: pro‧mul‧gar

### Verb

promulgar (first-person singular present promulgo, first-person singular preterite promulguei, past participle promulgado)
* (transitive) to promulgate (make known to the public)
* (transitive) to enact (sign into law or by decree)

#### Conjugation

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

#### Related terms

* promulgação

### Further reading

* “promulgar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin prōmulgāre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɾomulˈɡaɾ/ [pɾo.mulˈɣ̞aɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: pro‧mul‧gar

### Verb

promulgar (first-person singular present promulgo, first-person singular preterite promulgué, past participle promulgado)
* (law) to enact, to promulgate
** 2015 July 21, “La Ley de Propiedad Horizontal, ¿una norma doméstica?”, in El País‎:La LPH promulgada el 21 de julio de 1960, en plena dictadura y emergiendo un desarrollismo fue, a buen seguro, el primer instrumento legal que contenía el principio democrático del voto, previa reunión asamblearia, en la que participaban los propietarios, integrados en una comunidad, y decidían de esta forma todo lo concerniente al buen gobierno e interés común.The LPH promulgated on July 21, 1960, in the midst of the dictatorship and emerging developmentalism, was certainly the first legal instrument that contained the democratic principle of voting, after an assembly meeting, in which the owners, integrated in a community, participated and decided in this way all matters concerning good governance and common interest.

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

#### Related terms

* promulgación
* promulgador

### Further reading

* “promulgar”, 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