catar

From Latin captāre, present active infinitive of captō (“snatch”).

catar (first-person singular indicative present cato, past participle catáu)

1. to milk
2. to search, look for
3. to gaze
4. to catch

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese catar, from Latin captāre (“to seize, catch”).

• IPA^(key): /kaˈtaɾ/

catar m (plural catares)

1. (archaic) gaze

catar (first-person singular present cato, first-person singular preterite catei, past participle catado)

1. (transitive) to catch
2. (transitive) to collect
3. (transitive) to collect honey

   Synonyms: castrar, esmelgar

4. (transitive) to search
5. (transitive) to perceive, notice
6. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to realize (become aware of a fact or situation)

   Synonym: decatar

7. (transitive) to carefully search

   Synonym: procurar

8. (transitive) to delouse

   Synonym: espiollar

9. (transitive) to taste; to eat

• “catar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “catar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “catar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “catar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “catar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Latin captāre, present active infinitive of captō.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈtaɾ/

catar

1. to look; to observe; to examine
2. to look for
   • 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 335 (facsimile):

     ⁊ eles lle reſponderon / atal allur a catade.

     And they answered him: / go seek her elsewhere.

   • 13th century, Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, Estêvão Fernandes Barreto, B 1611: Stev'Eanes, por Deus mandade (facsimile)

     Out(ro) camj̃ho cate todauia […]

     Nevertheless, look for another way […]

3. to consider

• Galician: catar
• Portuguese: catar

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐ.ˈtaɾ/
• (Brazil)
  • verb: IPA^(key): /ka.ˈta(ʁ)/
  • noun: IPA^(key): /ka.ˈtaʁ/
• Homophone: Catar

From Old Portuguese catar, from Latin captāre, present active infinitive of captō (“snatch”). Doublet of captar.

catar (first-person singular present indicative cato, past participle catado)

1. (transitive) to gather; to glean; to collect (get multiple things)

   Vamos catar as maçãs da árvore? ― Let’s gather apples from the tree?

   Synonyms: colher, recolher

2. (transitive) to pick up (collect an object, especially from the ground)

   Derrubei a carta, pode catá-la para mim? ― I dropped the letter, can you pick it up for me?

   Synonym: pegar

3. (transitive) to look for; to search for (try to find something)

   Passei o dia catando o livro. ― I spent the day looking for the book.

   Synonym: procurar

4. (slang, transitive) to pick up (start a short romantic relationship with)

   Ele catou duas minas na festa. ― He picked up two chicks at the party.

   Synonym: pegar

5. (transitive) to clean something by removing defective elements one by one

   Cate o feijão antes de cozinhá-lo. ― Remove the rotten beans before cooking them.

   Synonym: selecionar

6. first-person singular (eu) personal infinitive of catar
7. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) personal infinitive of catar
8. first-person singular (eu) future subjunctive of catar
9. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) future subjunctive of catar

• acatar

catar m (plural catares)

1. a train of camels

   Synonym: cáfila

catar m (plural catares)

1. (very rare) Alternative form of cátaro

From Latin captāre, present active infinitive of captō (“snatch”). Doublet of captar.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈtaɾ/, [kaˈt̪aɾ]
• IPA^(key): [kaˈtaɾ]

catar (first-person singular present cato, first-person singular preterite caté, past participle catado)

1. to taste
2. to examine, look at

• catalejo

• acatar

From Latin captāre, present active infinitive of captō (“snatch”).

catar

1. (transitive) To find

• Venetian conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

• catarse