inventar

From invent +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [im.bənˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [iɱ.vənˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [iɱ.venˈtaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

inventar (first-person singular present invento, first-person singular preterite inventí, past participle inventat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. (transitive) to invent

• “inventar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “inventar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “inventar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “inventar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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• IPA^(key): /imbenˈtaɾ/ [im.ben̪ˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: in‧ven‧tar

inventar (first-person singular present invento, first-person singular preterite inventei, past participle inventado)

1. (transitive) to invent (create or find a new thing or a new way of doing it)
2. (transitive) to invent (create with imagination a tale, story etc)
3. (transitive) to invent (present as true something that is not)

• “inventar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• “inventar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

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inventar

1. to invent

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 383.

From invento, from Latin inventum, the supine form of inveniō (“find, discover”).

• Hyphenation: in‧ven‧tar

inventar (first-person singular present invento, first-person singular preterite inventei, past participle inventado)

1. to invent, devise
2. to imagine

For quotations using this term, see Citations:inventar.

• “inventar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “inventar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “inventar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Borrowed from French inventaire.

inventar n (plural inventare)

1. inventory

From invento (“invention”), from Latin inventum, the supine form of inveniō (“find, discover”).

• IPA^(key): /imbenˈtaɾ/ [ĩm.bẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: in‧ven‧tar

inventar (first-person singular present invento, first-person singular preterite inventé, past participle inventado)

1. to invent
2. to feign

• “inventar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

From invento, from Latin inventum, the supine form of inveniō (“find, discover”). Compare Italian inventare.

inventar

1. (transitive) to invent
2. (transitive) to fabricate

• Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.