minguar

From Old Galician-Portuguese minguar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin minuāre, from Classical Latin minuere.

• IPA^(key): [miŋˈɣwaɾ]

minguar (first-person singular present minguo, first-person singular preterite mingüei, past participle minguado)
minguar (first-person singular present minguo, first-person singular preterite minguei, past participle minguado, reintegrationist norm)

1. (intransitive) to wane (lunar phase)
2. to diminish

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “minguar”, 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), “minguar”, 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), “minguar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (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), “minguar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “minguar”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “minguar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• mingar
• mingoar (obsolete)

From Old Galician-Portuguese minguar, from Late Latin minuāre, from Classical Latin minuere. Compare Galician minguar, Spanish menguar.

• Hyphenation: min‧guar

minguar (first-person singular present (Brazilian Portuguese) mínguo or (European Portuguese) minguo, first-person singular preterite minguei, past participle minguado)

1. to wane (lunar phase)

   Antonym: crescer

2. to diminish

   Synonym: diminuir

• míngua
• minguante
• quarto minguante

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