# declare
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English declaren, from Old French declarer, from Latin dēclārō (“to make clear”), from dē- + clārus (“clear”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /dɪˈklɛə/
* (General American) IPA: /dɪˈklɛɚ/, /dəˈklɛɚ/
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* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

### Verb

declare (third-person singular simple present declares, present participle declaring, simple past and past participle declared)
* (obsolete, transitive) To make clear, explain, interpret.
** 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew:Then answered Peter and sayd to him: declare unto us thys parable.
** 1664, Robert Boyle, chapter III, in Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Henry Herringman […], published 1670, →OCLC, part I, page 26:To declare this a little, vve muſt aſſume, that the Surfaces of all ſuch Bodies, […] are exactly ſmooth only in a popular, or at moſt in a Phyſical ſenſe, but not in a ſtrict and rigid ſenſe.
* (transitive, intransitive) To assert or announce formally, officially, explicitly, or emphatically.
    Synonyms: disclose, make known; see also Thesaurus:announce
    He declared him innocent.
    declare bankruptcy
    declare victory
    declare war
** 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
    One South Korean opposition party called on Moon to declare the current air pollution problem a national disaster.
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    declare an innings closed
* (transitive) To inform government customs or taxation officials of goods one is importing or of income, expenses, or other circumstances affecting one's taxes.
    Synonyms: disclose, make known, divulge
** 1984 April 2, Richard Woodbury, Anastasia Toufexis, “Law: The Trouble with Harry”, in Time:The prosecution has introduced evidence, including canceled checks, to show that the judge failed to declare part of his income.
* (card games) To show one's cards in order to score.
* (intransitive, politics) For a constituency in an election to officially announce the result
    Houghton and Sunderland South was the first constituency to declare in the 2015 general election.
* (transitive, programming) To explicitly establish the existence of (a variable, function, etc.) without necessarily describing its content.
    The counter "i" was declared as an integer.
* (grand strategy games, slang) to declare war [with on]
    France declared on me, I'm finished!
* (Christianity, particularly Evangelicalism) To state that a thing shall happen or affirm a condition in the hopes of seeing it happen spiritually, in contrast to prayer which takes the form of a request.
    He prayed to God "please heal my sister", while she declared "I am healed in Jesus' name".

#### Conjugation

| infinitive | (to) declare | (to) declare |
| | present tense | past tense |
| 1st-person singular | declare | declared |
| 2nd-person singular | declare, declarest$^†$ | declared, declaredst$^†$ |
| 3rd-person singular | declares, declareth$^†$ | declared |
| plural | declare | declared |
| subjunctive | declare | declared |
| imperative | declare | — |
| participles | declaring | declared |
$^†$Archaic or obsolete.

#### Derived terms

* aforedeclared
* declarable
* declarant
* declaration
* declarative
* declaratory
* declarement
* declarer
* declare war
* foredeclare
* forward-declare
* I declare
* I do declare
* misdeclare
* nondeclaring
* predeclare
* redeclare
* undeclare

#### Translations

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### Anagrams

* Recalde, cedrela, cleared, creedal, relaced

## Galician
### Verb

declare
* inflection of declarar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /deˈkla.ɾi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /deˈkla.ɾi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /deˈkla.ɾe/
* (Portugal) IPA: /dɨˈkla.ɾɨ/
* Rhymes: (Brazil) -aɾi, (Portugal) -aɾɨ
* Hyphenation: de‧cla‧re

### Verb

declare
* inflection of declarar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [deˈklare]

### Verb

declare
* third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of declara

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /deˈklaɾe/ [d̪eˈkla.ɾe]
* Rhymes: -aɾe
* Syllabification: de‧cla‧re

### Verb

declare
* inflection of declarar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative