Spanish–English dictionary

preguntarse

(transitive, intransitive) To ponder; to feel doubt and curiosity; to query in the mind.

pregunteo

The action of asking questions; a survey; an inquiry.

preguntorio

The action of asking questions; a survey; an inquiry.

prehistórico

(properly) Of or relating to the epoch before written record.

prejuiciado

Having prejudices.

prejuiciar

(transitive) To cause prejudice in; to bias the mind of.

prejuicio

(countable, uncountable) Inclination towards something.

prejuicioso

Having prejudices.

prelado

A clergyman of high rank and authority, having jurisdiction over an area or a group of people; normally a bishop.

preliminar

In preparation for the main matter; initial, introductory, preparatory.

preliminares

(sex) The acts at the beginning of a (usually human) sexual encounter that serve to build up sexual arousal.

preludiar

(figurative) To precede; to act as a forerunner or herald.

preludio

An introductory or preliminary performance or event.

premarital

Before marriage; before getting married.

prematrimonial

Before marriage; before getting married.

prematuramente

In a premature manner; too soon or too early.

prematuro

Arriving a time before expected; sooner than on time.

premedicación

(medicine) The administration of a drug (or mixture of drugs) prior to an anesthetic, especially to induce sedation; the drug so administered.

premeditado

Planned, considered, or estimated in advance; deliberate.

premiar

(intransitive) To determine; to make or grant an award.

premier

(by extension, often, attributive) The most important one out of a related group.

premio

A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A prize or honor based on merit.

premio de consolación

The prize or benefit for the loser.

premio de consuelo

The prize or benefit for the loser.

premonición

A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.

premostración

(literature, usually, uncountable) A literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story.

premostrar

(transitive) To presage, or suggest something in advance. [from 16th c.]

premura

Speed; swiftness; dispatch.

preñada

Nurture; education; formation of manners.

preñado

(mostly, not comparable) Carrying developing offspring within the body.

preñar

(transitive, slang, vulgar) To ejaculate inside (a person or a bodily orifice of same); to creampie.

prenatal

Occurring or existing before birth.

prenda

(finance) A security or guarantee (usually an asset) pledged for the repayment of a loan if one cannot procure enough funds to repay.

prenda de vestir

A single item of clothing.

prenda exterior

Clothing (such as a dress) worn over one's underwear.

prenda para la cabeza

(uncountable) Anything worn on the head, such as a hat, hood, helmet, etc.

prendar

To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.

prendedor

A clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair.

prendedor de pelo

A clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair.

prender

(transitive) To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody. [from 14th c.]

prendería

The business premises of a pawnbroker; where loans are made, with personal property as security

prenderse fuego

(intransitive) to commence burning.

preñez

The period of time this condition prevails.

prensa

(usually, with a definite article; often treated as, _, uncountable) The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.

prensión

The act or process of (physically or figuratively) attaching.

prenupcial

Occurring before marriage; antenuptial.

preocupación

A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.

preocupado

Showing concern.

preocupante

Causing mental trouble or anguish; upsetting; making uneasy.

preocupar

(transitive) To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.

preocuparse

(reflexive) To feel badly guilty and accuse (oneself) over something. (Usually followed by over or about.)

prepago

(British) A payment method where the charge of a service is taken automatically, usually in small amounts, after the usage, in contrast of paying before usage. Used especially of mobile phones and transport ticketing.

preparación

(uncountable) The act of preparing or getting ready.

preparado

Ready, prepared.

preparado para lactantes

(countable, uncountable) Ellipsis of infant formula, drink given to babies to substitute for mother's milk.

preparar

(transitive) To address oneself to; to prepare oneself for; to apply oneself to; to direct one's speech, discourse or efforts to.

prepararse

(transitive, intransitive) To prepare for something bad, such as an impact or blow.

preparativo

(uncountable) The act of preparing or getting ready.

preparativos

(often, in the plural) Preparations for some undertaking.

preponderancia

Superiority of influence, power, a quality, etc.; an outweighing, predominance, pre-eminence.

preposición

(grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words and multiword terms typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.

preposteración

A complete change of direction, decision, movement etc.

preposterar

(transitive, US) To induce someone to turn state's evidence; to get someone to agree to testify against their co-conspirators in exchange for concessions.

prepóstero

Reversed, with the back now at the front.

prepotente

Of, or relating to hubris; overly arrogant.

prepucio

(anatomy) The nerve-dense, retractable fold of skin which covers and protects the head of the penis in humans and some other mammals.

prerrogativa

Having a hereditary or official right or privilege.

pres

(countable, weightlifting) An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the arms or legs.

presa

An artificial obstruction, such as a dam, in a river designed to increase its depth or to divert its flow.

presagiar

To foretell events; to exhibit signs of future events; to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable outcome.

presagio

A divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.

presbiteriano

Relating to Presbyterianism.

presbiterio

The space around the altar in a church, often enclosed, for use by the clergy and the choir. In medieval cathedrals the chancel was usually enclosed or blocked off from the nave by an altar screen.

presciencia

The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.

prescribir

(medicine) To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient (under licensed authority).

prescripción

A termination of a right etc., through disuse or neglect.

prescripción extintiva

(figurative) Any plan of treatment or handling; the treatment or handling thus provided.

prescripción liberatoria

(figurative) Any plan of treatment or handling; the treatment or handling thus provided.

prescriptivismo

(linguistics) The practice of prescribing idealistic norms, as opposed to describing realistic forms, of linguistic usage.

presencia

The act of attending; the state of being present; presence.

presenciar

(transitive) To be present at (an event or place) in order to take part in some action or proceedings; also, to regularly go to (an event or place). [from 17th c.]

presentación

The manner of speaking or singing.

presentación vendedora

An effort to sell or promote something.

presentador

(television) An anchorman or anchorwoman.

presentador de informativos

(broadcasting, journalism) One who delivers the news for broadcast on television, radio, etc; a newsreader.

presentador de noticias

(US, Canada) A presenter of news broadcasts.

presentadora

A female anchorperson.

presentalla

That which has been offered; a sacrifice.

presentáneo

Having the power to produce a required effect or effects.

presentar

(transitive, followed by with) To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) know; to make familiar.

presentarse

(intransitive) To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" or "at" designating the recipient of the submission, and the adposition "for" designating the position).

presente

(countable) Something given liberally; a gift.

presentimiento

Intuition.

presentir

(transitive) To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.

preservación

The act of preserving; care to preserve; act of keeping from destruction, decay or any ill.

preservante

Any agent, natural or artificial, that acts to preserve, especially when added to food.

preservar

To protect; to keep from harm or injury.

preservativo

Tending to preserve.

presi

(informal) Clipping of president.

presidencial

Pertaining to a president or presidency. [from 17th c.]

presidenta

A chairman or chairwoman, someone who presides over a meeting, board, etc.

presidenta del jurado

(legal) The member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf.

presidente

A person presiding over a meeting.

presidente del jurado

(legal) The member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf.

presidente director

Primary leader of a corporation. Not to be confused with CEO, which is a related but separate position that is sometimes held by a different person.

presidente municipal

(Ireland, rare, obsolete) A member of a city council.

presidiario

A prisoner or an ex-prisoner

presidiario reincidente

A prisoner or an ex-prisoner

presidio

A place or institution for the confinement of persons held against their will in lawful custody or detention, especially (in US usage) a place where people are held for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.

presidir

(transitive) To act as chairperson at; to preside over.

presilla

A wire fastener, made of thin wire, used to secure stacks of paper by penetrating all the sheets and curling around.

presión

(physics) The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area; force per unit area.

presión de los pares

Inducement or influence by one's peers.

presión de parte de los coetáneos

Inducement or influence by one's peers.

presión de parte de los congéneres

Inducement or influence by one's peers.

presión social

Inducement or influence by one's peers.

presionar

Chiefly followed by into: to force (someone) into doing something through harassment and intimidation; to coerce.

preso

A person confined to an institution such as a prison (as a convict) or hospital (as a patient).

pressing catch

tumbling act

prestación

(insurance) A payment made in accordance with an insurance policy or a public assistance scheme.

prestador

One who lends, especially money; specifically, a bank or other entity that specializes in granting loans.

prestamista

A person who lends money and charges interest, especially one who is not part of the official financial industry.

préstamo

(law, banking, finance) A sum of money or other property that a natural or legal person borrows from another with the condition that it be returned or repaid over time or at a later date (sometimes with interest).

prestancia

(specifically) A feature that causes someone or something to stand out as being better; a mark of honour, rank, eminence or excellence; the quality of being distinguished.

prestar

(transitive) To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.

prestarse

(ambitransitive) To do or offer to do something voluntarily.

prestatario

One who borrows.

presteza

Promptness; speed.

prestidigitador

One who performs feats of prestidigitation; a sleight-of-hand artist.

prestigio

(countable) A reliable, definitive source of information on a subject.

prestigioso

Of high prestige.

presto

Used to urge someone to do something quickly.

presumida

(slang, derogatory) One who talks too much or too loudly, especially in a boastful or self-important manner.

presumido

Having excessive pride in oneself, often with contempt or disrespect for others.

presumir

(intransitive) To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.

presunción

(uncountable) Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris. [from 17th c.]

presuncioso

(of a question) Designed to produce a predictable answer, or to lay a trap.

presuntamente

According to someone's allegation.

presuntivo

Based on presumption or conjecture; inferred, likely, presumed.

presunto

Appearing to be the most probable, often with some preparations starting to be made for it.

Presuntuoso

The first reindeer of Santa Claus.

presuponer

To assume some truth without proof, usually for the purpose of reaching a conclusion based on that truth.

presupuestal

Of or pertaining to a budget.

presupuestario

Of or pertaining to a budget.

presupuesto

Appropriate to a restricted budget.

presupuesto que

(formal, literary) Because.

presurización

The act or process of increasing pressure within a volume of space.

pretención

Pretentiousness.

pretenciosamente artístico

(sometimes, derogatory) Pretending to artistic worth; high-flown.

pretencioso

Being overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning, like a pedant.