afeitar

afeitar (first-person singular indicative present afeito, past participle afeitáu)

1. Alternative form of afaitar

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese afeitar, from Latin affectare.

• IPA^(key): [afejˈtaɾ]

afeitar (first-person singular present afeito, first-person singular preterite afeitei, past participle afeitado)

1. (archaic) to primp; to adorn
   • 1300, R. Martínez López (ed.), General Estoria. Oviedo: Archivum, page 259:

     o pauõ mostra a vida dos rricos, que ẽnobreçẽ, et afeytam, et cõpoem suas deanteyras et leyxam descuberta moy torpemẽte sua postromaria

     the peacocks show the lifestyle of the rich people, who grace, and adorn, and set up their front sides and let their backsides clumsily uncovered

2. to shave
   • 1295, R. Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 713:

     Conta a estoria que, estando Lope d'Arenas hũu dia afeyt[ã]do sua barua...

     The story tells that, being Lope de Arenas one day shaving his beard...

   Synonym: barbear

3. to sharpen

• afeite

• “afeitar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “afeyt” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “afeitar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “afeitar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “afeitar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• Hyphenation: a‧fei‧tar

From Latin affectāre. Doublet of afetar, afectar, and enfeitar.

afeitar (first-person singular present afeito, first-person singular preterite afeitei, past participle afeitado)

1. (archaic, takes a reflexive pronoun, transitive with a) to become fond of
2. (archaic, transitive) to make presentable

Borrowed from Spanish afeitar.

afeitar (first-person singular present afeito, first-person singular preterite afeitei, past participle afeitado)

1. (South Brazil, takes a reflexive pronoun) to shave (to remove one’s beard)

   Synonym: fazer a barba

Borrowed from Aragonese afeitar or Leonese afeitar, from Latin affectāre, present active infinitive of affectō. Doublet of ahechar (“clean wheat with a sieve”) (inherited) and the later learned borrowing afectar.

• IPA^(key): /afeiˈtaɾ/ [a.fei̯ˈt̪aɾ]

• Audio (Colombia)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧fei‧tar

afeitar (first-person singular present afeito, first-person singular preterite afeité, past participle afeitado)

1. (transitive or reflexive) to shave (to remove hair with a razor or clippers)

   Synonyms: rasurar, (especially head hair) rapar

• afeitadora
• afeitado
• afeitarse
• afeite
• máquina de afeitar
• maquinilla de afeitar
• navaja de afeitar

• “afeitar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014