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deitar
deitar
Old Portuguese
Verb
deitar
- to lay (to place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position)
- 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, 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 lied in the furnace.
- Eſta e como Santa maria guardou ao fillo do judeu que non ardeſſe que ſeu padre deitara no forno
- 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 4 (facsimile):
Descendants
- Portuguese: deitar
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese deitar, from Latin dēiectus (“drooping”).
Pronunciation
- (Paulista) IPA(key): /dej.ˈta(ɹ)/
- (South Brazil) IPA(key): /dej.ˈta(ɻ)/
- (Carioca) IPA(key): /dej.ˈta(χ)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /dɐj.ˈtaɾ/
Verb
deitar (first-person singular present indicative deito, past participle deitado)
- (intransitive, sometimes takes a reflexive pronoun) to lie down (to rest in a horizontal position)
- (by extension, intransitive) to go to sleep
- (transitive) to lay (to place in a horizontal position)
- (ditransitive, with the indirect object taking a or em or sobre) to throw (to cause to fall off onto)
- (transitive) to emit; to give off; to give out
Conjugation
Conjugation of the Portuguese -ar verb deitar
Synonyms
- (to lie down): reclinar(-se)
- (to go to sleep): ir dormir
- (to throw): jogar, tacar, arremessar, lançar
- (to emit): emitir