perpetrar

Learned borrowing from English perpetrō.

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perpetrar (first-person singular present perpetro, first-person singular preterite perpetrí, past participle perpetrat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. (transitive) to perpetrate, carry out

• perpetrable
• perpetració
• perpetrador

• “perpetrar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

Derived from English perpetrate, Spanish perpetrar, French perpétrer, Portuguese perpetrar and Italian perpetrare, all from Latin perpetrō (“to carry through”).

• IPA^(key): /per.peˈtrar/

perpetrar

1. (transitive) to perpetrate

• perpetration
• perpetrator

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

• Hyphenation: per‧pe‧trar

perpetrar (first-person singular present perpetro, first-person singular preterite perpetrei, past participle perpetrado)

1. to perpetrate

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

Borrowed from Latin perpetrāre (“to do entirely, to carry out”).

• IPA^(key): /peɾpeˈtɾaɾ/ [peɾ.peˈt̪ɾaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: per‧pe‧trar

perpetrar (first-person singular present perpetro, first-person singular preterite perpetré, past participle perpetrado)

1. (transitive) to carry out (a crime), to perpetrate

• “perpetrar”, 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