acudir

Borrowed from Spanish acudir, back-formation from recudir, from Latin recutiō.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

acudir (first-person singular present (especially in the sense "to turn up, to be present") acudeixo or (especially in the pronominal sense "to occur") acudo, first-person singular preterite acudí, past participle acudit)

1. to go to, to attend
2. (impersonal, pronominal) to come to mind, to occur (to someone)
   • 2017, “Fent amics”, performed by Renaldo & Clara:

     És l'única manera de salvar-me'n / No se m'acut que contestar-li.

     It's the only way to save me from it / Nothing occurs to me by way of reply.

also

• acudit

• “acudir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “acudir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “acudir” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Old Galician-Portuguese acudir, from earlier recudir, from Latin recutere.

• Hyphenation: a‧cu‧dir

acudir (first-person singular present acudo, third-person singular present acode, first-person singular preterite acudi, past participle acudido) (transitive, intransitive)

1. to help

• “acudir”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “acudir”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “acudir” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “acudir”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “acudir”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

A blend between acorrer (“to help, aid”) and recudir (“to return, pay”).

• IPA^(key): /akuˈdiɾ/

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• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: a‧cu‧dir

acudir (first-person singular present acudo, first-person singular preterite acudí, past participle acudido)

1. to go (to), come (to), attend, visit
   • 2010, Germán San Nicasio, La cárcel de Jackson Pollock, Eutelequia, →ISBN, page 89:

     Acudiste al evento con dos horas de retraso y disfrazado de Spiderman.

     You went to the event two hours late and dressed as Spider-Man.

2. to turn to, turn, consult, resort to

   Synonym: recurrir

   • 2007, José Blas Fuentes Mañas, “La regla lex loci delicti commissi y normas localizadoras especiales en el reglamento “Roma II””, in Anuario español de derecho internacional privado, volume 7, page 345:

     La distinta calificación de las obligaciones contractuales o extracontractuales por los diferentes ordenamientos jurídicos de los Estados en los que se aplica el Reglamento, nos lleva a considerar las soluciones a un eventual conflicto de calificaciones. La solución más generalizada es acudir a la calificación ex lege fori, pero tratándose de un texto comunitario se impone la necesidad de construir un concepto autónomo que asegure la aplicación uniforme de la norma.

     The distinct qualification of contractual and extracontractual obligations by the different legal systems in which the regulation is applied leads us into considering the solutions for an eventual conflict of qualifications. The most generalized solution is to resort to the qualification from the law of the forum, but dealing with a community text there is a need to construct an autonomous concept which secures the uniform application of the norm.

   • 2007, Luis Garau Juaneda, “La conveniencia de una denuncia por parte de España del convenio de La Haya de 1971 sobre responsabilidad civil derivada de los accidentes de circulación”, in Anuario español de derecho internacional privado, volume 7, page 503:

     […] la autonomía de la voluntad contemplada en el RR II difícilmente sería utilizada en esta materia: el acuerdo a posteriori sobre la ley aplicable es equivalente al acuerdo sobre el fondo, y si hay acuerdo sobre el fondo, ¿para qué acudir a un juez?

     The party autonomy contemplated in the Rome II regulation would be of difficult utilization in this matter: the agreement on the applicable law after the event is tantamount to an agreement on the substance, and when there is agreement on the substance, why resort to the judge?

3. to come to mind

   acudir a la mente ― to occur to (someone)

4. to apply (to), to appeal (to) (e.g. a court, government department, commission)

• → Catalan: acudir
• → Italian: accudire

• “acudir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10