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-Portuguese catar, from Latin captāre (“to seize, catch”).

• IPA^(key): /kaˈtaɾ/
• Hyphenation: ca‧tar

catar m (plural catares)

1. (archaic) gaze

catar

1. except (for), unless

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
10. (intransitive) to take care
    • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 297:

      cata ben tua fazẽda, de tal maneyra que todos digã que de bon padre que seýo bon fillo

      take good care of your possessions, so that everyone says that of a good father came a good son

    • 1594, anonymous, Entremés dos pastores:

      Ay Jan cata non te enfermes
      nen sentencies con malicia
      cata que a yalma perdes.

      Oh, John, take care, don't get mad
      Don't speak with malice
      Take care, because you're loosing your soul

• “catar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “catar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “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.
• “cata que” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Inherited from Latin captāre.

• IPA^(key): /ka.ˈtaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ

catar

1. to look; to observe; to examine
2. to look for
   • 13th century CE, 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

catar m (plural catares)

1. gaze

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese catar, from Latin captāre (“to snatch”). Compare Galician, Asturian, and Spanish catar, Doublet of captar.

• Homophone: Catar (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: ca‧tar

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

   Deixei cair 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.

   Synonyms: procurar, buscar

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

   Ele catou duas raparigas 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 o cozinhar. ― Remove the rotten beans before cooking them.

   Synonym: selecionar

• catavento

• acatar

From Persian قطار‎ (qatâr), from Arabic قِطَار‎ (qiṭār, “train”).[1][2]

• Homophone: Catar (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: ca‧tar

catar m (plural catares)

1. a train of camels

   Synonym: cáfila

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• Homophone: Catar (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: ca‧tar

catar m (plural catares)

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (very rare) Alternative form of cátaro

• “catar” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “catar” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “catar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “catar” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.

From French catarrhe, from Latin catarrhus.

catar n (plural cataruri)

1. catarrh

From Old Spanish catar, inherited from Latin captō, captāre (“snatch”). Doublet of captar.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈtaɾ/ [kaˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ca‧tar

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

1. (transitive) to taste (wine)
2. (transitive) to sample (an appetizer)
3. (transitive) to examine, look at
4. (intransitive, dated) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

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

• carta, traca

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