desvanecer

From Latin ēvānēscere. Doublet of esvaecer.

• Hyphenation: des‧va‧ne‧cer

desvanecer (first-person singular present desvaneço, first-person singular preterite desvaneci, past participle desvanecido)

1. to vanish or cause to vanish
2. (reflexive) to fade

   Synonyms: desaparecer, evanescer

Inherited from Latin ēvānēscere, influenced by the Spanish prefix des-, or less likely through a Vulgar Latin root *disvānēscere. Compare the borrowed doublet evanescer. See also Portuguese esvaecer.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /desbaneˈθeɾ/ [d̪ez.β̞a.neˈθeɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /desbaneˈseɾ/ [d̪ez.β̞a.neˈseɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: des‧va‧ne‧cer

desvanecer (first-person singular present desvanezco, first-person singular preterite desvanecí, past participle desvanecido)

1. to vanish
2. (reflexive) to fade

   Synonyms: desaparecer, evanescer

• “desvanecer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28