deitar

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese deitar, from Vulgar Latin *dēctāre, from Latin dējectāre, frequentative of dējicere (“to throw, hurl down”). Compare Portuguese deitar.

• IPA^(key): /dejˈtaɾ/

deitar (first-person singular present deito, first-person singular preterite deitei, past participle deitado)

1. (transitive) to lay; to lean

   Synonym: pousar

   • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 806:

     prouarõ tres escaleyras de fuste et acharõnas curtas; et desi atarõnas a hũa cõ a outra et deytarõnas a hũa torre

     they tried three wooden ladders but found them too short; and so they tied them together and leaned them against a tower

2. (transitive) to cause to fall
3. (pronominal) to lie down
4. (transitive) to throw; to expel

   Synonym: chimpar

5. (transitive) to pour

   Synonym: botar

6. (transitive) to leak

   Synonym: perder

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “deitar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “deitar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “deitar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “deitar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “deitar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “deitar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

• deitare

Inherited from Latin dējectāre, frequentative of dējicere (“to throw, hurl down”), probably via an early *deieitar, with reduction via haplology.

• IPA^(key): /dej.ˈtaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ

deitar

1. to lay (to place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position)
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 4 (facsimile):

     Eſta e como Santa maria guardou ao fillo do judeu que non ardeſſe que ſeu padre deitara no forno

     This one is about how Holy Mary protected from being burnt the son of the Jew whose father had been laid in the furnace.

• Galician: deitar
• Portuguese: deitar

• Universo Cantigas - "deitar~deitare"

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese deitar, from a Vulgar Latin *dēctāre, from Latin dējectāre,^[1][2][3] frequentative of dējicere (“to throw, hurl down”).

• Hyphenation: dei‧tar

deitar (first-person singular present deito, first-person singular preterite deitei, past participle deitado)

2. (intransitive, sometimes pronominal) to lie down (to rest in a horizontal position)

   Synonym: reclinar(-se)

   Antonyms: erguer-se, levantar

4. (by extension, intransitive) to go to sleep

   Synonym: ir dormir

6. (transitive) to lay (to place in a horizontal position)
8. (transitive) to throw [with direct object ‘something’, along with a or em ‘to someone’]

   Synonyms: arremessar, jogar, lançar, tacar

   deitar fora ― to throw away

10. (transitive) to pour [with direct object ‘something’ and sobre ‘onto something’]
12. (transitive) to emit; to give off; to give out

    Synonym: emitir

13. (reflexive) to drop (to lower oneself quickly to the ground)
14. (reflexive) to lie down (to assume a reclining position)