cuidar

Meaning

1. (intransitive,transitive) to take care of, to care for
2. (transitive) to look after, to look out for, to keep an eye on, to guard, to protect, to watch over, to watch out for (implies doing so with care)
3. (transitive) to mind, to watch, to pay attention
4. to babysit
5. to keep, to sit on (e.g. one's house, keeping the place in order)
6. (transitive) to nurse, to nurture, to tend, to tend to, to attend to (e.g. nurse back to health, to tend a garden or yard, tend to a herd or flock)
7. (reflexive) to take care, to take care of, to look after, to care for (oneself)
8. (reflexive) to be careful of/with, to beware, to watch out for, to be wary of (+ de)

Concepts

nurse

take care of

look after

care

care for

guard

take care

tend

attend

take

watch

rear

treat

attend to

keep

mind

see

observe

breed

bring up

raise

raise children

shepherd

cure

heal

maintain

remedy

tend to

see to

pay attention

spy

watch over

command

create

form

found

govern

grasp

order

prove

reign

rule

take hold of

pay attention to

test

look at

educate

hold

protect

beware

curry

dress

groom

assist

serve

wait on

give care

recomfort

Hyphenated as

cui‧dar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kwiˈdaɾ/

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish coidar, from Latin cogitāre (“think”). Doublet of cogitar, a borrowing from Latin, whence also English cogitate.