# meditar
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin meditārī.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [mə.ðiˈta]
* IPA: (Valencia) [me.ðiˈtaɾ]
* Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

### Verb

meditar (first-person singular present medito, first-person singular preterite medití, past participle meditat)
* (intransitive) to meditate (rest while remaining conscious)
** 2015, Emmanuel Carrére, El Regne, Anagrama, →ISBN:[…] uns quants anys més tard, em demanaré si és millor posarse a meditar abans o després dels exercicis de ioga. […] a few years later, I'll wonder if it's better to start meditating before or after doing yoga exercises.
* (transitive, intransitive) to meditate, to ponder, to contemplate
** 2000, Salvador Llobet i Reverter: la geografia, entre ciència i passió, Institut d'Estudis Catalans, →ISBN, page 98:No és imprescindible estudiar moltes matèries, ni llegir molts llibres; poden ser pocs, però bons i ben meditats.It's not essential to study many subjects or read many books; they can be few, as long as they're good and well-pondered.

#### Related terms

* meditació
* meditatiu
* premeditar

### Further reading

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

## Ido
### Etymology

From Latin meditor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mediˈtar/

### Verb

meditar (present tense meditas, past tense meditis, future tense meditos, imperative meditez, conditional meditus)
* to ponder

#### See also

* pensar

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin meditārī.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /me.d͡ʒiˈta(ʁ)/ [me.d͡ʒiˈta(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /me.d͡ʒiˈta(ʁ)/ [me.d͡ʒiˈta(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /me.d͡ʒiˈta(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /me.d͡ʒiˈta(ʁ)/ [me.d͡ʒiˈta(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /me.d͡ʒiˈta(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /mɨ.diˈtaɾ/ [mɨ.ðiˈtaɾ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /mɨ.diˈtaɾ/ [mɨ.ðiˈtaɾ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /mɨ.diˈta.ɾi/ [mɨ.ðiˈta.ɾi]
* Hyphenation: me‧di‧tar

### Verb

meditar (first-person singular present medito, first-person singular preterite meditei, past participle meditado)
* to meditate

#### Conjugation

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

#### Related terms

* meditação
* meditador
* meditativo
* premeditar

### Further reading

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

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin meditārī.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mediˈtaɾ/ [me.ð̞iˈt̪aɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: me‧di‧tar

### Verb

meditar (first-person singular present medito, first-person singular preterite medité, past participle meditado)
* (intransitive) to meditate (rest while remaining conscious)
** 2015, Paloma Sainz Martínez Vara de Rey, Mindfulness para niños, Grupo Planeta Spain →ISBN
    Toda persona debería aprender a meditar, y cuanto antes en la vida lo haga, tanto mejor.Everyone should learn to meditate, and the sooner in life that they do, the better.
* (transitive, intransitive) to meditate, to ponder, to contemplate
** 2006, Juan C. González, Perspectivas contemporáneas sobre la cognición: categorización, percepción y conceptualización, Siglo XXI, →ISBN, page 77:No meditan sobre sus propias representaciones mentales.They don't contemplate their own mental representations.
    Synonyms: considerar, contemplar, rumiar

#### 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

* meditación
* meditador
* meditativo
* premeditar

#### Further reading

* “meditar”, 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