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instaurar

to establish

verb een-stow-RAHR Rare
People & Society Politics

Origin: From Latin instaurare (to renew, restore).

Also means

to institute

Usage Note

Instaurar means to formally establish or institute something new—a system, a regime, a tradition. It implies inaugurating something that will have lasting effect: instaurar una democracia, instaurar una costumbre. It is more formal than establecer and carries a sense of founding or restoring order. The related noun is instauración.

Examples

"El gobierno instauró un nuevo sistema fiscal."

Natural Translation

The government established a new tax system.

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