desmerecer
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Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
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Verb
[edit]desmerecer (first-person singular present desmereço, first-person singular preterite desmereci, past participle desmerecido)
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of desmerecer (c-ç alternation) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /desmeɾeˈθeɾ/ [d̪ez.me.ɾeˈθeɾ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /desmeɾeˈseɾ/ [d̪ez.me.ɾeˈseɾ]
- Rhymes: -eɾ
- Syllabification: des‧me‧re‧cer
Verb
[edit]desmerecer (first-person singular present desmerezco, first-person singular preterite desmerecí, past participle desmerecido)
- to criticize
- 2020 August 11, “Isla de Annobón la patria chica de Tutu Alicante”, in Guinea Ecuatorial Press[1], archived from the original on 25 April 2021:
- Un grupillo en todo caso exiguo, marginal y desmerecido sin credibilidad ni prestigio alguno para nadie a fecha del año 2020.
- A small group that is in any case meager, marginal, unworthy, and without credibility or any prestige of any kind as of 2020.
- to belittle; to play down; to downplay
- sin querer desmerecer su importancia
- not wanting to play down its importance
- 1927, Ricardo Güiraldes, Don Segundo Sombra, chapter XIV:
- y como allí encontraría mucha gente del reñidero, no quería desmerecer la fama adquirida con mis apuestas
- as I'd find many people from the cockfights there, I didn't want to downplaythe fame my bets had acquired
- 2002, Robert W. Pazmiño, Cuestiones Fundamentales de la Educación Cristiana:
- El énfasis en el currículo escondido no debería desmerecer la preocupación por las dimensiones explícitas y académicas del currículo
- The emphasis on the hidden curriculum should not belittle from concern for the explicit and academic dimensions of the curriculum.
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of desmerecer (c-zc alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of desmerecer (c-zc alternation)
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “desmerecer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28
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