virar

From Proto-Celtic, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁y- (“to twist”).[1][2] Confer Breton gwar (“curved”), from Proto-Celtic *wēro- (“crooked”).[3]

• IPA^(key): /biˈɾaɾ/

virar (first-person singular present viro, first-person singular preterite virei, past participle virado)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to turn, rotate
   • 1432, Antonio Fernández Salgado (ed.), A documentación medieval de San Bieito do Campo. Santiago: USC, page 74:

     prometemos de o teer, conprir e agardar e nõ virarmos contra elo

     we promise to keep [this deal], to fulfill it, and to don't turn against it

2. (transitive) to turn upside down
3. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to become; to alter in manner or appearance
4. first- and third-person singular future subjunctive of virar
5. first- and third-person singular personal infinitive of virar

• (to turn, rotate): xirar

• revirar (“to twist”)
• vira (“flap”)
• virada (“turn”)
• viravolta (“twirl”)
• viradeira
• virador
• viraventos (“pinwheel”)

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

From Late Latin virō.

virar

1. to turn

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From Vulgar Latin *virāre, from Latin gȳrāre or vibrāre.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /viˈɾaɾ/

virar (first-person singular present indicative viro, past participle virado)

1. to turn or bend (around)

   virar à esquerda ― to turn left

2. to upset or topple
3. (nautical) to capsize
4. (Brazil, transitive) to become

   virar um astro ― to become a celebrity

   Synonyms: tornar, transformar

5. (used with se, intransitive, persons) to do something by oneself or without help

   Se vire com seu problema! ― Solve your problem by yourself!

Perhaps from a Vulgar Latin root *virāre, of uncertain origin: possibly of Celtic; (compare Welsh gwyro) or possibly a variation of Latin vibrāre or gȳrāre. See also French virer, Italian virare.

virar (first-person singular present viro, first-person singular preterite viré, past participle virado)

1. to veer
2. (nautical) to tack

virar

1. present tense of vira.