humillar

• humilhar (reintegrationist)

From Old Galician-Portuguese omillar (Cantigas de Santa Maria, 13th century); from Late Latin humiliāre, present active infinitive of humiliō, from humus (“ground, soil”). Compare Portuguese humilhar.

• IPA^(key): /umiˈʎaɾ/

humillar (first-person singular present humillo, first-person singular preterite humillei, past participle humillado)

1. (transitive) to humiliate

   Synonym: vexar

2. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to humble, to abase

   Synonym: abaixar

3. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to bow, to lower, to salute

   Synonym: abaixar

   • 1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 642:

     Et, quando forõ ante dona Xemena, o mouro omillouse a ela et a suas fillas, et quiso beyiar as mãos a dona Xemena; mays ela nõ llas quiso dar.

     And when they were before lady Xemena, the Moor man bowed before her and her daughters, and he wanted to kiss lady Xemena,s hands, but she didn't allow him to.

• humillante
• milladoiro

• humillación

• “humillar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

• “omillar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “omill” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “humillar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “humillar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Altered from Old Spanish homillar, a borrowing from Late Latin humiliāre.

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: hu‧mi‧llar

humillar (first-person singular present humillo, first-person singular preterite humillé, past participle humillado)

1. (transitive) to humiliate

   Synonym: (Mexico) sobajar

• “humillar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “humilde”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 426