lidar

Blend of light +‎ radar

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪdɑɹ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪdɑː/
• Rhymes: -aɪdɑː(ɹ)

lidar (plural lidars)

1. The optical analogue of radar, using intense pulses of laser light to measure the composition and structure of the atmosphere.

• LIDAR (acronym of "light detection and ranging")

• radar

• sonar

• Laird, drail, laird, larid, liard

lidar m (plural lidars)

1. lidar

From Old Galician-Portuguese lidar, from Latin lītigāre (“to dispute”), present active infinitive of lītigō. Compare Spanish lidiar. Doublet of litigar, which is a borrowing.

• IPA^(key): /liˈðaɾ/

lidar (first-person singular present lido, first-person singular preterite lidei, past participle lidado)

1. to deal with, to handle
2. to fight, to struggle

   Synonym: loitar

   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 316:

     Et sabede que en todo o muro nõ ouuo y torre nẽ cubete nẽ arca hu algũ home podesse estar lidando en que nõ estouesse syna ou pendón de féuera cõ bandas d'ouro

     You must know that in all the wall there were neither tower nor turret nor brattice where a man can be fighting and where there were not a banner or standard of thread [of silk] and stripes of gold

3. to bullfight

   Synonym: tourear

• lide
• litigar
• litixio

• “lidar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “lidar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “lidar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “lidar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “lidar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “lidar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Old Galician-Portuguese lidar, lidear, from Latin lītigāre (“to dispute”). Compare Spanish lidiar and Italian litigare (“to quarrel”). Doublet of litigar, which was a borrowing.

• Hyphenation: li‧dar

lidar (first-person singular present lido, first-person singular preterite lidei, past participle lidado)

1. to deal with, to handle

   Synonyms: reagir, ocupar-se

   Não sei como lidar com isso.

   I don't know how to handle it.

2. to fight, to struggle

   Synonyms: combater, lutar

3. to bullfight

   Synonyms: correr, tourear

• lide
• litigar
• litígio

• “lidar” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “lidar” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “lidar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “lidar” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “lidar” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “lidar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.