desviar

From Latin dēviāre.

desviar (first-person singular present desvio, first-person singular preterite desvií, past participle desviat)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to divert, to deviate

• desviació

• “desviar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “desviar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “desviar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “desviar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old Galician-Portuguese desviar, from Latin dēviāre.

• Hyphenation: des‧vi‧ar

desviar (first-person singular present desvio, first-person singular preterite desviei, past participle desviado)

1. to divert
2. to deviate
3. to deflect
4. to swerve
5. to detour

From Latin dēviāre, with replacement of Latin dē- by Spanish des-. Cognate with English deviate.

• IPA^(key): /desˈbjaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: des‧viar

desviar (first-person singular present desvío, first-person singular preterite desvié, past participle desviado)

1. to divert, to distract, to shift, to sidetrack
2. to deflect
3. (figuratively) to derail (e.g. a movement, a process)
4. to bypass, to reroute, to redirect
5. to siphon, to siphon off (e.g. money, funds)
6. to forward (a phone call)
7. to avert (e.g. one's eyes or gaze)
8. to change (e.g. the subject, the course, the conversation)
9. to shunt
10. (figuratively) to shunt (i.e. move aside)
11. (reflexive) to deviate, to detour, to turn aside, to depart
12. (reflexive) to turn off, to veer (e.g. to take an exit)
13. (reflexive) to branch off, to fork off (e.g. a road or highway)
14. (reflexive) to swerve, to go off course
15. (reflexive) to get sidetracked

• “desviar”, 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