bagatellizál

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Hungarian

Etymology

From German bagatellisieren + -izál.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: ba‧ga‧tel‧li‧zál
  • Rhymes: -aːl

Verb

bagatellizál

  1. (transitive) to play down, make light of, trivialize, belittle, denigrate, depreciate (to make or attempt to make something seem less important)
    Synonyms: lebecsül, lekicsinyell, félvállról vesz

Conjugation

Derived terms

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References

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Further reading

  • bagatellizál in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • bagatellizál in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).