cerdear

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish [Term?]?

Spanish cerda

Proto-Indo-European *-om

Proto-Italic *-om

Latin -um

Spanish -o

Spanish cerdo

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.

Latin -izāre

Spanish -ear

Spanish cerdear

From cerdo + -ear.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θeɾdeˈaɾ/ [θeɾ.ð̞eˈaɾ] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /seɾdeˈaɾ/ [seɾ.ð̞eˈaɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: cer‧de‧ar

Verb

cerdear (first-person singular present cerdeo, first-person singular preterite cerdeé, past participle cerdeado)

1. (of an animal) to limp (because of an injury to the hind legs)
2. to screech (said of the strings of an instrument)
3. to resist (doing something)

Conjugation

    Conjugation of cerdear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			cerdear
gerund			cerdeando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		cerdeado		cerdeada
		plural		cerdeados		cerdeadas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	cerdeo	cerdeastú cerdeásvos	cerdea	cerdeamos	cerdeáis	cerdean
	imperfect	cerdeaba	cerdeabas	cerdeaba	cerdeábamos	cerdeabais	cerdeaban
	preterite	cerdeé	cerdeaste	cerdeó	cerdeamos	cerdeasteis	cerdearon
	future	cerdearé	cerdearás	cerdeará	cerdearemos	cerdearéis	cerdearán
	conditional	cerdearía	cerdearías	cerdearía	cerdearíamos	cerdearíais	cerdearían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	cerdee	cerdeestú cerdeésvos2	cerdee	cerdeemos	cerdeéis	cerdeen
	imperfect (ra)	cerdeara	cerdearas	cerdeara	cerdeáramos	cerdearais	cerdearan
	imperfect (se)	cerdease	cerdeases	cerdease	cerdeásemos	cerdeaseis	cerdeasen
	future1	cerdeare	cerdeares	cerdeare	cerdeáremos	cerdeareis	cerdearen
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		cerdeatú cerdeávos	cerdee	cerdeemos	cerdead	cerdeen
	negative		no cerdees	no cerdee	no cerdeemos	no cerdeéis	no cerdeen

¹Rare; now chiefly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tuteo-form for the present subjunctive.

Further reading

• “cerdear”, 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