serrar

From Latin serrare, present active infinitive of serrō.

serrar (first-person singular indicative present serro, past participle serráu)

1. to saw (cut with a saw)

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /səˈra/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /seˈraɾ/

From Latin serrō, serrāre (“to saw”).

serrar (first-person singular present serro, past participle serrat)

1. (transitive) to saw

• serra

From Vulgar Latin serrō, serrāre (“to close”).

serrar (first-person singular present serro, past participle serrat)

1. (transitive) to squeeze

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

serrar (Latin spelling)

1. Alternative form of aserrar

From Old Portuguese serrar, from Latin serrare, present active infinitive of serrō (“I saw”), from serra (“saw”).

• (Paulista) IPA^(key): /se.ˈʁa(ɹ)/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /se.ˈha(ɻ)/
• Homophone: cerrar
• Hyphenation: ser‧rar

serrar (first-person singular present indicative serro, past participle serrado)

1. to saw (to cut with a saw)
2. first-person singular (eu) personal infinitive of serrar
3. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) personal infinitive of serrar
4. first-person singular (eu) future subjunctive of serrar
5. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) future subjunctive of serrar

• sarar (Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

From Late Latin serāre, present active infinitive of serō, from Latin sera (“bolt, cross-bar”).

serrar

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Puter, Vallader) to close

• aserrar

From Old Spanish, from Latin serrare, present active infinitive of serrō.

• IPA^(key): /seˈraɾ/
• Homophone: cerrar (non-Castilian)

serrar (first-person singular present sierro, first-person singular preterite serré, past participle serrado)

1. to saw

• Rule: e becomes an ie in stressed syllables.

• “serrar” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.