decapitar

Borrowed from Late Latin dēcapitāre, from Latin de- + caput (“head”) + -āre.

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

decapitar (first-person singular present decapito, first-person singular preterite decapití, past participle decapitat)

1. to decapitate, to behead

• decapitació

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

From Late Latin decapitare, from Latin de- + caput (“head”) + -are.

decapitar (first-person singular present decapito, first-person singular preterite decapitei, past participle decapitado)

1. to decapitate

• decapitación

• “decapitar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “decapitar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Borrowed from Late Latin decapitāre, from dē- +‎ caput (“head”) +‎ -āre.

• Rhymes: -aɾ, (Brazil, with r-dropping) -a
• Hyphenation: de‧ca‧pi‧tar

decapitar (first-person singular present decapito, first-person singular preterite decapitei, past participle decapitado)

1. (transitive) to behead; to decapitate (remove the head of)

   Synonym: degolar

• decapitação

Borrowed from Late Latin dēcapitāre, from Latin de- + caput (“head”) + -are.

• IPA^(key): /dekapiˈtaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: de‧ca‧pi‧tar

decapitar (first-person singular present decapito, first-person singular preterite decapité, past participle decapitado)

1. to decapitate

   Synonym: descabezar

• “decapitar”, 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