preferir

Meaning

  1. to prefer
  2. to rather (be or do)

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Hyphenated as
pre‧fe‧rir
Pronounced as (IPA)
/pɾefeˈɾiɾ/
Etymology

Borrowed from Latin praeferre, with a change of conjugation. Cognate with English prefer.

Cognate with English
English
prefer

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