decer

Galician

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese decer (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), probably from Vulgar Latin *descidere,[1] from descendo (dēscendere). Doublet of the borrowing descender. Cognate with Portuguese descer and Old Spanish deçir.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [deˈθeɾ]

Verb

decer (first-person singular present dezo, first-person singular preterite decín, past participle decido)

  1. (dated) to descend, to go down
    Synonyms: baixar, descender
    Antonyms: ascender, poxar, subir, upar
    • 1390, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 806:
      quando chegou aos visos altos que som alende da ponte, deceu cõ hũu daquelles caualeyros que leuaua
      when he arrived to one of those high vantage points that are beyond the bridge, he descended with one of those knights he kept with him
    • 1746, Martín Sarmiento, Coloquio:
      Enton, nosa dona deceuse, à pè quedo, do seu carricoche
      Then our lady descended, sure-footed, from her carriage

Conjugation

References

  • decer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • decer” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • decer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • decer” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • descer” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “descender”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • deçer

Etymology

Probably from Vulgar Latin *descidere, from dēscendere. Cognate with Old Spanish deçir.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /deˈt͡seɾ/
  • Rhymes: -eɾ

Verb

decer

  1. to descend, to go down

Conjugation

  • Third person singular present tense: dece
  • Second person plural present tense: decedes
  • Third person plural past tense: deceron
  • Third singular future tense: decerá

Descendants

  • Galician: decer
  • Portuguese: descer

Further reading

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