refusar

From Latin recūsāre and refūtāre, possibly via Old French refuser.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [rə.fuˈza]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [re.fuˈzaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

refusar (first-person singular present refuso, first-person singular preterite refusí, past participle refusat)

1. (transitive) to refuse, to reject
2. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to refuse [+ a (object) = to]

• recusar
• refús
• refutar

• “refusar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “refusar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “refusar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “refusar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

13th century. From Vulgar Latin *refusare, from refūsus.[1]

• IPA^(key): /refuˈsaɾ/

refusar (first-person singular present refuso, first-person singular preterite refusei, past participle refusado)

1. (literary) to refuse
   • 1431, E. Duro Peña (ed.), El Monasterio de San Esteban de Ribas de Sil. Ourense: Instituto de Estudios Orensanos "Padre Feijóo", page 379:

     desde viinte e nove annos a esta parte, que diso que feseran outras pesqueiras eno dito Cachón que refusaran de o conprir e pagar

     for twenty-nine years now, that he said that they build another fishery in this rapids, and that they refused to fulfil and pay [the agreement]

   Synonym: rexeitar

• “refusar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “refus” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “refusar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “refusar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
• “refusar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

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refusar

1. to refuse