estimar

Borrowed from Latin aestimāre. Compare also Old Catalan aesmar, from a Vulgar Latin *adaestimāre (see also the modern Catalan derivative esme).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əs.tiˈma]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [es.tiˈmaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

estimar (first-person singular present estimo, first-person singular preterite estimí, past participle estimat)

1. to love

   Synonyms: amar, voler

   T'estimo. ― I love you.

2. to esteem
3. to estimate

• estimar-se més
• sobreestimar
• subestimar

• esme, esma
• estimació

• “estimar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “estimar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “estimar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “estimar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old Galician-Portuguese estimar (13th century); borrowed from Latin aestimāre. Doublet of esmar.

• IPA^(key): [es.ti.ˈmaɾ]

estimar (first-person singular present estimo, first-person singular preterite estimei, past participle estimado)

1. to estimate, appraise
   • 1347, E. Duro Peña (ed.), El Monasterio de S. Pedro de Rocas y su colección documental. Ourense: Instituto de Estudios Orensanos "Padre Feijoo", page 192:

     se veer grando ou geada que seia estimado por dous lavradores da dita villa et por hun frade do dito mosteiro

     in case of hail or frost [the damage] must be appraised by two farmers of said town and a friar of said monastery

2. to esteem; to thank, to be grateful for

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “estimar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “estim”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “estimar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “estimar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “estimar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “estimar”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “estimar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• estima
• istimar

Borrowed from Spanish estimar.

• IPA^(key): /ʔesˈtimaɾ/ [ʔesˈti.maɾ]
• Hyphenation: es‧ti‧mar

estimár (Kur-itan spelling ᜁᜐ᜔ᜆᜒᜋᜎ᜔)

1. attention given to or entertainment of guest

• Rubino, Carl Ralph Galvez (2000), “estimar”, in Byron W. Bender, editor, Ilocano Dictionary and Grammar: Ilocano-English, English-Ilocano‎^[2] (overall work in English and Ilocano), Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 188

Borrowed from Latin aestimāre. Doublet of esmar.

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• Hyphenation: es‧ti‧mar

estimar (first-person singular present estimo, first-person singular preterite estimei, past participle estimado)

1. (transitive) to estimate
2. (transitive) to assess, evaluate, appraise
3. (transitive) to esteem

• “estimar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “estimar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Latin aestimāre.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /estiˈmaɾ/ [es.t̪iˈmaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: es‧ti‧mar

estimar (first-person singular present estimo, first-person singular preterite estimé, past participle estimado)

1. to esteem
2. to estimate
3. to think, to believe

• “estimar”, 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