prestar
- (transitive) to lend
- (transitive) to give, pay (e.g., attention)
- (reflexive, transitive) to have a natural inclination, a natural tendency
- (transitive) to take
- (nonstandard, transitive) to borrow
Frequency
Hyphenated as
pres‧tar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/pɾesˈtaɾ/
Etymology
In summary
Inherited from Old Spanish prestar, from Latin praestāre. Coromines and Pascual mention an old attestation of Latin praestō meaning "to lend" in a legal document of 438, the Interpretationes Theodosianae, where commodō is switched for praestō. This meaning is also attested in the Reichenau Glosses. They also mention that the meaning "to borrow", generally considered non-standard, is already attested in the 16th-century work El patrañuelo.
Related words
leihen
prêter
prestare
emprestar
lenen
δανείζω
ödünç vermek
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