registrar

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin registrārius, from registrum (“register”) + -ārius (“agent of use”). See more at register. By surface analysis, register / registry (“a record”) +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ɪsˌtɹɑɹ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

registrar (plural registrars)

1. An official keeper or recorder of records.
   1. An officer in a university who keeps enrollment and academic achievement records.
   2. (museums) The person responsible for record-keeping related to a museum's or archive's collection.
   3. (law) The chief executive officer of a judicial forum, in charge of the entire registry of the department.
2. A doctor receiving advanced specialist training in some countries in order to become a consultant.
3. (Internet) A service that manages the reservation of domain names.

Derived terms

• registrar-general
• registrarship

Related terms

• register, registry

Translations

official keeper of records

• Bulgarian: архивар (bg) m (arhivar)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 登記員 / 登记员 (zh) (dēngjìyuán)

• Dutch: griffier (nl) m, trouwambtenaar (nl) m or f (conducts civil marriages)
• Esperanto: aktisto
• Finnish: rekisteri (fi), rekisteriviranomainen, kirjaamo
• French: registraire (fr) m or f
• Galician: escribán (gl) m, rexistrador (gl) m
• German: Registrator m, Registrar (de) m, Registerführer m
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: γραμματεύς m (grammateús)

• Hungarian: (in a general sense) nyilvántartó (hu), (for marriages) anyakönyvvezető (hu)
• Japanese: 記録係 (きろくがかり, kiroku-gakari)
• Macedonian: архи́вар m (arhívar), регистра́тор m (registrátor), ма́тичар m (mátičar)
• Māori: kairēhita
• Romanian: registrator (ro) m, înregistrator (ro) m
• Russian: архива́риус (ru) m (arxivárius), регистра́тор (ru) m (registrátor)
• Spanish: registrador (es) m
• Tagalog: tagatala

officer in a university who keeps enrollment and academic achievement records

• Bulgarian: секретар (bg) m (sekretar)
• Hungarian: tanulmányi ügyintéző/előadó, hivatalvezető a tanulmányi osztályon
• Macedonian: секрета́р m (sekretár)

doctor receiving advanced specialist training

• German: Assistenzarzt (de) m
• Swedish: underläkare c

service that manages domain names

• French: registrar (fr) m (a society)

Catalan

Etymology

From registre +‎ -ar. First attested in 1286.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [rə.ʒisˈtɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [re.d͡ʒisˈtɾaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [re.ʒisˈtɾa]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

Verb

registrar (first-person singular present registro, first-person singular preterite registrí, past participle registrat)

1. to register, to record

   Synonym: enregistrar

Conjugation

    Central Catalan conjugation of registrar (first conjugation)

infinitive			registrar
gerund			registrant
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		registrat		registrada
		plural		registrats		registrades
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	ell/ella vostè	nosaltres nós	vosaltres vós	ells/elles vostès
	present	registro	registres	registra	registrem	registreu	registren
	imperfect	registrava	registraves	registrava	registràvem	registràveu	registraven
	future	registraré	registraràs	registrarà	registrarem	registrareu	registraran
	preterite	registrí	registrares	registrà	registràrem	registràreu	registraren
	conditional	registraria	registraries	registraria	registraríem	registraríeu	registrarien
subjunctive		jo	tu	ell/ella vostè	nosaltres nós	vosaltres vós	ells/elles vostès
	present	registri	registris	registri	registrem	registreu	registrin
	imperfect	registrés	registressis	registrés	registréssim	registréssiu	registressin
imperative		—	tu	vostè	nosaltres	vosaltres vós	vostès
	affirmative	—	registra	registri	registrem	registreu	registrin
	negative (no)	—	no registris	no registri	no registrem	no registreu	no registrin

Derived terms

• registració

Further reading

• “registrar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “registrar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “registrar”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• registar (Portugal)

Etymology

From registro + -ar.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁe.ʒisˈtɾa(ʁ)/ [he.ʒisˈtɾa(h)]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁe.ʒisˈtɾa(ʁ)/ [he.ʒisˈtɾa(h)]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ʁe.ʒisˈtɾa(ɾ)/ [he.ʒisˈtɾa(ɾ)]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁe.ʒiʃˈtɾa(ʁ)/ [χe.ʒiʃˈtɾa(χ)]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ʁe.ʒisˈtɾa(ɻ)/ [he.ʒisˈtɾa(ɻ)]

• Audio (Brazil (Caipira)):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: re‧gis‧trar

Verb

registrar (first-person singular present registro, first-person singular preterite registrei, past participle registrado) (Brazilian Portuguese spelling)

1. to register, to record

Conjugation

    Conjugation of registrar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	registrar
Personal	registrar	registrares	registrar	registrarmos	registrardes	registrarem
Gerund
	registrando
Past participle
Masculine	registrado			registrados
Feminine	registrada			registradas
Indicative
Present	registro	registras	registra	registramos	registrais	registram
Imperfect	registrava	registravas	registrava	registrávamos	registráveis	registravam
Preterite	registrei	registraste	registrou	registramos1, registrámos2	registrastes	registraram
Pluperfect	registrara	registraras	registrara	registráramos	registráreis	registraram
Future	registrarei	registrarás	registrará	registraremos	registrareis	registrarão
Conditional	registraria	registrarias	registraria	registraríamos	registraríeis	registrariam
Subjunctive
Present	registre	registres	registre	registremos	registreis	registrem
Imperfect	registrasse	registrasses	registrasse	registrássemos	registrásseis	registrassem
Future	registrar	registrares	registrar	registrarmos	registrardes	registrarem
Imperative
Affirmative		registra	registre	registremos	registrai	registrem
Negative (não)		não registres	não registre	não registremos	não registreis	não registrem

¹Brazilian Portuguese.
²European Portuguese.

Further reading

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

Spanish

Etymology

From registro + -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rexisˈtɾaɾ/ [re.xisˈt̪ɾaɾ]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: re‧gis‧trar

Verb

registrar (first-person singular present registro, first-person singular preterite registré, past participle registrado)

1. to register, record
2. to examine, inspect, search
3. (reflexive) to check in

Conjugation

    Conjugation of registrar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			registrar
gerund			registrando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		registrado		registrada
		plural		registrados		registradas
		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	registro	registrastú registrásvos	registra	registramos	registráis	registran
	imperfect	registraba	registrabas	registraba	registrábamos	registrabais	registraban
	preterite	registré	registraste	registró	registramos	registrasteis	registraron
	future	registraré	registrarás	registrará	registraremos	registraréis	registrarán
	conditional	registraría	registrarías	registraría	registraríamos	registraríais	registrarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	registre	registrestú registrésvos2	registre	registremos	registréis	registren
	imperfect (ra)	registrara	registraras	registrara	registráramos	registrarais	registraran
	imperfect (se)	registrase	registrases	registrase	registrásemos	registraseis	registrasen
	future1	registrare	registrares	registrare	registráremos	registrareis	registraren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		registratú registrávos	registre	registremos	registrad	registren
	negative		no registres	no registre	no registremos	no registréis	no registren

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

    Selected combined forms of registrar

These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
with infinitive registrar	dative	registrarme	registrarte	registrarle, registrarse	registrarnos	registraros	registrarles, registrarse
	accusative	registrarme	registrarte	registrarlo, registrarla, registrarse	registrarnos	registraros	registrarlos, registrarlas, registrarse
with gerund registrando	dative	registrándome	registrándote	registrándole, registrándose	registrándonos	registrándoos	registrándoles, registrándose
	accusative	registrándome	registrándote	registrándolo, registrándola, registrándose	registrándonos	registrándoos	registrándolos, registrándolas, registrándose
with informal second-person singular tuteo imperative registra	dative	regístrame	regístrate	regístrale	regístranos	not used	regístrales
	accusative	regístrame	regístrate	regístralo, regístrala	regístranos	not used	regístralos, regístralas
with informal second-person singular voseo imperative registrá	dative	registrame	registrate	registrale	registranos	not used	registrales
	accusative	registrame	registrate	registralo, registrala	registranos	not used	registralos, registralas
with formal second-person singular imperative registre	dative	regístreme	not used	regístrele, regístrese	regístrenos	not used	regístreles
	accusative	regístreme	not used	regístrelo, regístrela, regístrese	regístrenos	not used	regístrelos, regístrelas
with first-person plural imperative registremos	dative	not used	registrémoste	registrémosle	registrémonos	registrémoos	registrémosles
	accusative	not used	registrémoste	registrémoslo, registrémosla	registrémonos	registrémoos	registrémoslos, registrémoslas
with informal second-person plural imperative registrad	dative	registradme	not used	registradle	registradnos	registraos	registradles
	accusative	registradme	not used	registradlo, registradla	registradnos	registraos	registradlos, registradlas
with formal second-person plural imperative registren	dative	regístrenme	not used	regístrenle	regístrennos	not used	regístrenles, regístrense
	accusative	regístrenme	not used	regístrenlo, regístrenla	regístrennos	not used	regístrenlos, regístrenlas, regístrense

Derived terms

• a mí que me registren
• marca registrada
• registración
• registrador

Further reading

• “registrar”, 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