sondar

sonda +‎ -ar

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /sonˈda/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /sunˈda/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /sonˈdaɾ/

sondar (first-person singular present sondo, past participle sondat)

1. (transitive, nautical) to sound, to take soundings of
2. (transitive, figurative) to sound out (determine a person's intent or preference)

• “sondar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Borrowing from English sound, French sonder, German sondieren, Italian sondare, Russian зонди́ровать (zondírovatʹ) and Spanish sondear.

• IPA^(key): /sɔnˈdar/

sondar (present tense sondas, past tense sondis, future tense sondos, imperative sondez, conditional sondus)

1. (intransitive) to take soundings in
2. (transitive, intransitive, general) to sound: ascertain the depth of, explore the nature of the bottom
3. (transitive, general) to fathom
4. (transitive, figuratively) to try, test
5. (intransitive, medicine) to probe (with a probe), to sound (with a sound)
6. (intransitive, mining) to make a boring

• sondilo (“soundingn line, soundingn lead; probe; sound”)

sondar m

1. indefinite plural of sonde

From sonda +‎ -ar.

sondar (first-person singular present sondo, first-person singular preterite sondei, past participle sondado)

1. to investigate inconspicuously
2. to probe (to insert a probe into)
3. to fathom (to measure the depth of a body of water)

• sonda

• sondar, Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa com Acordo Ortográfico

From French sonder, from Old French sonder, from sonde (“sounding line”), extracted from Old English sundline (“sounding line”), from sund (“water, sea, swimming, sound (channel)”) from Proto-Germanic *sundą (“swimming; sound”), cognate with English swim. An alternative theory derives it from a hypothetical Vulgar Latin *subundāre, from Latin sub- + undō (“to surge, to swell”), from unda (“wave”).

• IPA^(key): /sonˈdaɾ/ [sõn̪ˈd̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: son‧dar

sondar (first-person singular present sondo, first-person singular preterite sondé, past participle sondado)

1. to sound (to probe the depth of water with a weighted rope or similar)
2. (transitive) to catheterize

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