cerrar

cerrar (first-person singular indicative present cerro, past participle cerráu)

1. Alternative form of zarrar

• zarrar

From Old Galician-Portuguese serrar, çerrar, sarrar, çarrar, from Vulgar Latin serrāre (“close, shut”), from Late Latin serō, serāre (“fasten, bolt”), from Latin sera (“bolt, cross-bar”).

• (standard) IPA^(key): /θɛˈraɾ/
• (western) IPA^(key): /sɛˈraɾ/

cerrar (first-person singular present cerro, first-person singular preterite cerrei, past participle cerrado)

1. (transitive) to close, shut
2. (transitive) to seal
3. (transitive) to enclose
4. (intransitive) to darken, dim
5. (intransitive) to conclude
6. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to close, shut

• “cerrar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “cerrar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cerrar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cerrar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Old Galician-Portuguese serrar, çerrar, sarrar, çarrar, from Vulgar Latin serrāre (“close, shut”), from Late Latin serāre (“to fasten, to bolt”), from Latin sera (“bolt, cross-bar”). Cognate with Galician and Spanish cerrar, French serrer and Italian serrare.

• Hyphenation: cer‧rar

cerrar (first-person singular present cerro, first-person singular preterite cerrei, past participle cerrado)

1. to close, shut
2. to seal
3. inflection of cerrar:
   1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive
   2. first/third-person singular personal infinitive

From Old Spanish, from Vulgar Latin serrāre (“close, shut”), from Late Latin serāre, present active infinitive of serō (“fasten, bolt”), from Latin sera (“bolt, cross-bar”). Compare English serry/serried.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θeˈraɾ/ [θeˈraɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /seˈraɾ/ [seˈraɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ce‧rrar
• Homophone: (Latin America) serrar

cerrar (first-person singular present cierro, first-person singular preterite cerré, past participle cerrado)

1. (transitive) to close, to shut

   No olvides cerrar la puerta.

   Don't forget to close the door.

   Antonym: abrir

2. (transitive) to shut down, to close down

   Quieren cerrar tu negocio.

   They're trying to shut your business down.

   Antonym: abrir

3. (transitive) to turn off, to shut off (to rotate a tap or valve so as to interrupt the outflow of liquid or gas)

   cerrar el grifo ― to turn off the tap

   cerrar la luz ― to turn off the lights

4. (transitive) to enclose
5. to lock, to lock up
6. to seal, to close (e.g. a deal, a breach, a rift)
7. to close up, to close off (e.g. a wound)
8. to close, to conclude, to end
9. (reflexive) to close (itself) (e.g., a store, a door)
10. (reflexive) to close off (oneself)

To specify that you mean to "lock" and not just "close" or "shut", include con llave following cerrar.

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