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afeitar

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Asturian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /afeiˈtaɾ/, [a.fei̯ˈt̪aɾ]
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Hyphenation: a‧fei‧tar

Verb

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

  1. Alternative form of afaitar

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Galician

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese afeitar, from Latin affectare.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /afejˈtaɾ/ [a.fejˈt̪aɾ]
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Hyphenation: a‧fei‧tar

Verb

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

  1. (archaic) to primp; to adorn
    • 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, 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
    Synonym: barbear
    • 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, 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...
  3. to sharpen

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References

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Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: a‧fei‧tar

Etymology 1

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

Verb

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

  1. (archaic, pronominal) to become fond [with a ‘of someone’]
  2. (archaic, transitive) to make presentable
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Spanish afeitar.

Verb

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

  1. (South Brazil, pronominal) to shave (to remove one’s beard)
    Synonym: fazer a barba
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Further reading

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  • afeitar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Spanish

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /afeiˈtaɾ/ [a.fei̯ˈt̪aɾ]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Syllabification: a‧fei‧tar

Verb

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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
  2. (obsolete) to groom
    • 1728, Benito Jerónimo Feijoo, Teatro Crítico Universal, volume 2:
      le afeitassen y vistiessen como muger
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    • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 204:
      Cando el gato se afeita, es decir, cando se lame la cara, es señal de que luego llegarán visitas.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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