cuspir

From Latin conspuō.

cuspir (first-person singular indicative present cuspo, past participle cuspíu)

1. to spit

   Nun cuspáis nel suelu que toi de ñidialu

   Don't spit on the floor, I just cleaned it

• “cuspir” in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana. Xosé Lluis García Arias. →ISBN.
• Academia de la Llingua Asturiana (2000). Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana (1ª edición). →ISBN.

• chuspir, guspir

From Old Galician-Portuguese cospir, from Latin cōnspuō (“to spit”).

• IPA^(key): /kusˈpiɾ/

cuspir (first-person singular present cuspo, third-person singular present cospe, first-person singular preterite cuspín, past participle cuspido)
cuspir (first-person singular present cuspo, third-person singular present cospe, first-person singular preterite cuspim or cuspi, past participle cuspido, reintegrationist norm)

1. to spit (to expel saliva from the mouth)

   Synonyms: cuspiñar, esgarrar

   Onde moitos cospen, lama fan (proverb) ― Where many people spit, they make mud

• cuspe (“saliva”)
• cuspido (“spitting image”)

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cospir”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cosp”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cuspir”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cuspir”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cuspir”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• cospir (obsolete)
• guspir (Brazil, nonstandard)
• escupir (Beira, Minho, Trás-os-Montes)

From Old Galician-Portuguese cospir, from Latin cōnspuō (“to spit out”).

• Homophone: cuspi (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: cus‧pir

cuspir (first-person singular present cuspo, third-person singular present cospe, first-person singular preterite cuspi, past participle cuspido)

1. to spit (to expel saliva from the mouth)

   Synonyms: cuspinhar, salivar, escarrar

2. (figuratively) to offend

   Synonyms: ofender, insultar

• “cuspir”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025