prevaricar

== Catalan == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin praevāricārī. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Northern, Central) [pɾə.βə.ɾiˈka] IPA(key): (Balearic) [pɾə.və.ɾiˈka] IPA(key): (Valencia) [pɾe.va.ɾiˈkaɾ] IPA(key): (Northwestern) [pɾe.βa.ɾiˈka] Homophone: prevaricà Rhymes: -a(ɾ) === Verb === prevaricar (first-person singular present prevarico, first-person singular preterite prevariquí, past participle prevaricat) (intransitive) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Related terms ==== prevaricació == Italian == === Verb === prevaricar (apocopated) apocopic form of prevaricare == Portuguese == === Etymology === From Latin praevāricārī. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: pre‧va‧ri‧car === Verb === prevaricar (first-person singular present prevarico, first-person singular preterite prevariquei, past participle prevaricado) to fail or refuse to obey certain laws, rules or obligations Synonym: descumprir (law) to commit the crime of prevarication, which consists in not complying with laws to betray (transitive) to corrupt ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Related terms ==== prevaricação === Further reading === “prevaricar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “prevaricar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == Spanish == === Etymology === From Latin praevāricārī. Cognate with English prevaricate. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /pɾebaɾiˈkaɾ/ [pɾe.β̞a.ɾiˈkaɾ] Rhymes: -aɾ Syllabification: pre‧va‧ri‧car === Verb === prevaricar (first-person singular present prevarico, first-person singular preterite prevariqué, past participle prevaricado) to prevaricate Synonyms: andarse con rodeos, andarse por las ramas, tergiversar (law) to commit perjury to fall short performing, or to neglect, one's duties (colloquial) to go mad ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “prevaricar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025