adiviñar

See also: adivinar

Galician

Alternative forms

• adaviñar, adeviñar, adoviñar, aduviñar
• adivinhar (reintegrationist)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese adevinnar, adevỹar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin ad + dīvīnāre (“foretell”). Compate Portuguese adivinhar, Spanish adivinar and French deviner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aðiβiˈɲaɾ/

Verb

adiviñar (first-person singular present adiviño, first-person singular preterite adiviñei, past participle adiviñado)

1. to guess

   Synonym: acertar

   Adiviña que hai na caixa. ― Guess what is inside the box.

   • c. 1350, Kelvin M. Parker, editor, Historia Troyana, page 106:

     Et en ponto que o fezo, soubo adeviñar por que lles vjña tal tormẽta.

     And as soon as he did that, he correctly guessed why that storm was coming for them

2. to divine, foretell

   Synonyms: predicir, prever

   Vou adiviñar o seu futuro: alguén quere os seus cartos. ― I'll foretell your future: someone wants your money.

   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 246:

     Eu sey moyto de adiujñar, atãto que nõ sey home ẽno mũdo que atãto sábea, et ey moytas cousas ditas que seýrõ todas uerdade, et nũca cousa dixe que uerdade nõ fosse et todo assý nõ o uisse, nẽ ja mays nũca adiuiñey cousa en que falesçesse.

     I know much about divination, as much that I know no one in the world who knows as much as I do; and I have said a lot of things that became all true, and never I said a thing that wasn't true, and never I foretold something and failed

Conjugation

    Conjugation of adiviñar

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (ti)	Third-person (el / ela / Vde.)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / Vdes.)
Infinitive
Impersonal	adiviñar
Personal	adiviñar	adiviñares	adiviñar	adiviñarmos	adiviñardes	adiviñaren
Gerund
	adiviñando
Past participle
Masculine	adiviñado			adiviñados
Feminine	adiviñada			adiviñadas
Indicative
Present	adiviño	adiviñas	adiviña	adiviñamos	adiviñades	adiviñan
Imperfect	adiviñaba	adiviñabas	adiviñaba	adiviñabamos	adiviñabades	adiviñaban
Preterite	adiviñei	adiviñaches	adiviñou	adiviñamos	adiviñastes	adiviñaron
Pluperfect	adiviñara	adiviñaras	adiviñara	adiviñaramos	adiviñarades	adiviñaran
Future	adiviñarei	adiviñarás	adiviñará	adiviñaremos	adiviñaredes	adiviñarán
Conditional	adiviñaría	adiviñarías	adiviñaría	adiviñariamos	adiviñariades	adiviñarían
Subjunctive
Present	adiviñe	adiviñes	adiviñe	adiviñemos	adiviñedes	adiviñen
Imperfect	adiviñase	adiviñases	adiviñase	adiviñásemos	adiviñásedes	adiviñasen
Future	adiviñar	adiviñares	adiviñar	adiviñarmos	adiviñardes	adiviñaren
Imperative
Affirmative		adiviña	adiviñe	adiviñemos	adiviñade	adiviñen
Negative (non)		non adiviñes	non adiviñe	non adiviñemos	non adiviñedes	non adiviñen

Related terms

• adiviña
• adiviñación
• adiviñanza
• adiviño

 

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “adevy_ar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “adiuiñ”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “adiviñar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “adiviñar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “adiviñar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “adiviñar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024