digerir

From Latin dīgerere, present active infinitive of dīgerō (“I separate, I distribute”).

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /di.ʒəˈɾi/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /di.d͡ʒeˈɾiɾ/

digerir (first-person singular present digereixo, past participle digerit)

1. to arrange, to bring in order
2. to digest

   Synonym: pair

3. to handle, to cope with

• digestió

• “digerir” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “digerir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “digerir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “digerir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Latin dīgerere (“to separate; to distribute”), with change of conjugation.

• (Brazil) Homophone: digeri

digerir (first-person singular present digiro, third-person singular present digere, first-person singular preterite digeri, past participle digerido)

1. to digest (to break down and absorb food in the alimentary canal)

   Vacas conseguem digerir grama.

   Cows can digest grass.

2. (figurative) to digest (to think over and arrange methodically in the mind)

   Não conseguia digerir a informação.

   He couldn’t digest the information.

3. (figurative) to deal with; to come to terms with; to cope

   Ele ainda não digeriu a morte da mãe.

   He still hasn’t come to terms with his mother’s death.

4. inflection of digerir:
   1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive
   2. first/third-person singular personal infinitive

• digestir (obsolete or dialectal)

From Latin dīgero (“separate, distribute”).

• IPA^(key): /dixeˈɾiɾ/ [d̪i.xeˈɾiɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: di‧ge‧rir

digerir (first-person singular present digiero, first-person singular preterite digerí, past participle digerido)

1. to digest

• digestión
• digestivo
• indigesto

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