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From Latin praecavēre.

precaver (no stressed present indicative or subjunctive, first-person singular preterite precavi, past participle precavido)

1. (transitive) to prevent
2. (pronominal) to take precautions

Sometimes speakers create additional inflected forms based on the paradigms of ver or vir, such as precavejo or precavenho, though this is considered nonstandard.

From Latin praecavēre, present active infinitive of praecaveō.

• IPA^(key): /pɾekaˈbeɾ/ [pɾe.kaˈβ̞eɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: pre‧ca‧ver

precaver (first-person singular present precavo, first-person singular preterite precaví, past participle precavido)

1. (transitive) to prevent

• “precaver”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014