executar

From Latin exsequor (“to pursue”), from ex- (“out”) + sequor (“to follow”), Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to follow”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əɡ.zə.kuˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [eɡ.ze.kuˈtaɾ]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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• Homophone: executà
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

executar (first-person singular present executo, first-person singular preterite executí, past participle executat)

1. to execute

• execució

• “executar”, 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
• “executar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “executar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “executar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Derived from English execute, French exécuter, Italian esecutare, Portuguese executar and Spanish ejecutar, all from Medieval Latin execūtō.

• IPA^(key): /eks.e.kuˈtar/
• Hyphenation: ex‧e‧cu‧tar

executar

1. (transitive) to execute

   Synonym: exequer

• Alexander Gode (1951), Interlingua-English: A Dictionary of the International Language, New York: Storm Publishers, →OL

From Latin exsequor (“I pursue”), from ex- (“out”) + sequor (“to follow”), Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to follow”).

executar

1. to execute (carry out an instruction, an order, etc.)

• execucion

• exsecutar (obsolete)

Learned borrowing from Latin executāre, from the past participle of exsequor (“to pursue, to execute, to accomplish, to examine”), from ex- + sequor (“to follow”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to follow”).

• Hyphenation: e‧xe‧cu‧tar

executar (first-person singular present executo, first-person singular preterite executei, past participle executado)

1. to carry out

   Synonyms: realizar, fazer, levar a efeito

2. to execute (kill as punishment)

   Troponyms: crucificar, eletrocutar, enforcar, guilhotinar, impalar

3. (computing) to run a software

   Synonyms: (Brazil) rodar, (Portugal) correr

4. to play music

   Synonym: tocar

For quotations using this term, see Citations:executar.

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

• IPA^(key): /exekuˈtaɾ/ [e.xe.kuˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: e‧xe‧cu‧tar

executar (first-person singular present executo, first-person singular preterite executé, past participle executado)

1. obsolete spelling of ejecutar