deitar

From Old Galician/Old Portuguese deitar[1][2], from Vulgar Latin *dēctāre, contraction of Latin dējectāre, frequentative of dējicere (“to throw, hurl down”).

• IPA^(key): /dejˈtaɾ/

deitar (first-person singular present deito, first-person singular preterite deitei, past participle deitado)

1. (transitive) to lay; to lean
   • c1295, R. Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 806:

     prouarõ tres escaleyras de fuste et acharõnas curtas; et desi atarõnas a hũa cõ a outra et deytarõnas a hũa torre

     they tried three wooden ladders but found them too short; and so they tied them together and leaned them against a tower

   Synonym: pousar

2. (transitive) to cause to fall
3. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to lie down
4. (transitive) to throw; to expel

   Synonym: chimpar

5. (transitive) to pour

   Synonym: botar

6. (transitive) to leak

   Synonym: perder

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

From a Vulgar Latin *dectāre[1][2], contraction of Latin dējectāre, frequentative of dējicere (“to throw, hurl down”).

• IPA^(key): /d̪ej.ˈtaɾ/

deitar

1. to lay (to place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position)
   • 13th century CE, 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 been laid in the furnace.

• Galician: deitar
• Portuguese: deitar

From Old Portuguese deitar, from a Vulgar Latin *dēctāre[1][2], contraction of Latin dējectāre, frequentative of dējicere (“to throw, hurl down”).

• Hyphenation: dei‧tar

deitar (first-person singular present deito, first-person singular preterite deitei, past participle deitado)

1. (intransitive, sometimes takes a reflexive pronoun) to lie down (to rest in a horizontal position)

   Synonym: reclinar(-se)

   Antonyms: erguer-se, levantar

2. (by extension, intransitive) to go to sleep

   Synonym: ir dormir

3. (transitive) to lay (to place in a horizontal position)
4. (ditransitive, with the indirect object taking a or em or sobre) to throw (to cause to fall off onto)

   Synonyms: arremessar, jogar, lançar, tacar

   deitar fora ― to throw away

5. (transitive) to emit; to give off; to give out

   Synonym: emitir

6. (reflexive) to drop (to lower oneself quickly to the ground)
7. (reflexive) to lie down (to assume a reclining position)