# declarar
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dēclārāre. First attested in the 14th century.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [də.kləˈɾa]
* IPA: (Valencia) [de.klaˈɾaɾ]

### Verb

declarar (first-person singular present declaro, first-person singular preterite declarí, past participle declarat)
* (ambitransitive) to declare
* (transitive) to explain
* (intransitive) to testify
* (pronominal) to declare oneself to be, to announce oneself
    declarar-se innocent ― to plead not guilty

#### Related terms

* declaració
* declaratiu

### References

* ↑ “declarar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

### Further reading

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

## Galician
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese declarar, from Latin dēclārāre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /deklaˈɾaɾ/ [d̪e.klaˈɾaɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Hyphenation: de‧cla‧rar

### Verb

declarar (first-person singular present declaro, first-person singular preterite declarei, past participle declarado)
* to declare

#### Conjugation

$^1$Less recommended.

#### Related terms

* declaración
* declarante

### Further reading

* “declarar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
* “declarar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

## Interlingua
### Verb

declarar
* to declare

#### Conjugation

| infinitive | infinitive | declarar | declarar |
| participle | participle | present | perfect |
| participle | participle | declarante | declarate |
| active | | simple | perfect |
| active | present | declara | ha declarate |
| active | past | declarava | habeva declarate |
| active | future | declarara | habera declarate |
| active | conditional | declararea | haberea declarate |
| active | imperative | declara | |
| passive | | simple | perfect |
| passive | present | es declarate | ha essite declarate |
| passive | past | esseva declarate | habeva essite declarate |
| passive | future | essera declarate | habera essite declarate |
| passive | conditional | esserea declarate | haberea essite declarate |
| passive | imperative | sia declarate | |

#### Related terms

* declaration
* declarative
* declaratori

## Ladino
### Verb

declarar (Hebrew spelling דיקלאראר)
* Alternative spelling of deklarar
** 1940, La boz de Türkiye‎, numbers 11–34, page 116:Los Judios de la primera categoria devran tomar de nuevo sus viejos nombres en el caso onde los trocaron y declarar sus fortunas.Jews of the first category must retake their old names when they changed and they must declare their fortunes.

## Occitan
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
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### Verb

declarar
* to declare

#### Related terms

* declaracion
* declaratiu

### Further reading

* Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 217.

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin dēclārāre.

### Verb

declarar
* (transitive) to explain

#### Descendants

* Galician: declarar
* Portuguese: declarar

### References

* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “declarar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “declarar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## Old Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin dēclārāre.

### Verb

declarar
* (transitive) to explain

#### Descendants

* Ladino: deklarar, דיקלאראר
* Spanish: declarar

### References

* Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “declarar”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume I, Chapel Hill, page 165

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese declarar, from Latin dēclārāre.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /de.klaˈɾa(ʁ)/ [de.klaˈɾa(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /de.klaˈɾa(ʁ)/ [de.klaˈɾa(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /de.klaˈɾa(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /de.klaˈɾa(ʁ)/ [de.klaˈɾa(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /de.klaˈɾa(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /dɨ.klɐˈɾaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /dɨ.klɐˈɾaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /dɨ.klɐˈɾa.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: de‧cla‧rar

### Verb

declarar (first-person singular present declaro, first-person singular preterite declarei, past participle declarado)
* to declare; to state
    Hyponym: redeclarar
    declarar guerra ― to declare war

#### Conjugation

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

#### Related terms

* declaração
* declarativo

### Further reading

* “declarar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
* “declarar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* “declarar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish declarar, from Latin dēclārāre. Cognate with English declare.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /deklaˈɾaɾ/ [d̪e.klaˈɾaɾ]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: de‧cla‧rar

### Verb

declarar (first-person singular present declaro, first-person singular preterite declaré, past participle declarado)
* to declare; to state
    Hyponym: redeclarar
    declarar la guerra ― to declare war
* (infinitive, law) to declare
* (reflexive, transitive) to declare one’s love for
* (reflexive) to plead (e.g., innocent, guilty, etc.)
* (reflexive) to break out (e.g., pandemic, fire, war)

#### 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

* declaración
* declarativo

### Further reading

* “declarar”, 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