dormitar

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dormītāre.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /doʁ.miˈta(ʁ)/
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /doɾ.miˈta(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /doʁ.miˈta(ʁ)/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /doɻ.miˈta(ɻ)/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /duɾ.miˈtaɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /duɾ.miˈta.ɾi/

Verb

dormitar (first-person singular present dormito, first-person singular preterite dormitei, past participle dormitado)

to doze or nap

Conjugation

Conjugation of dormitar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	dormitar
Personal	dormitar	dormitares	dormitar	dormitarmos	dormitardes	dormitarem
Gerund
	dormitando
Past participle
Masculine	dormitado			dormitados
Feminine	dormitada			dormitadas
Indicative
Present	dormito	dormitas	dormita	dormitamos	dormitais	dormitam
Imperfect	dormitava	dormitavas	dormitava	dormitávamos	dormitáveis	dormitavam
Preterite	dormitei	dormitaste	dormitou	dormitamos¹, dormitámos²	dormitastes	dormitaram
Pluperfect	dormitara	dormitaras	dormitara	dormitáramos	dormitáreis	dormitaram
Future	dormitarei	dormitarás	dormitará	dormitaremos	dormitareis	dormitarão
Conditional	dormitaria	dormitarias	dormitaria	dormitaríamos	dormitaríeis	dormitariam
Subjunctive
Present	dormite	dormites	dormite	dormitemos	dormiteis	dormitem
Imperfect	dormitasse	dormitasses	dormitasse	dormitássemos	dormitásseis	dormitassem
Future	dormitar	dormitares	dormitar	dormitarmos	dormitardes	dormitarem
Imperative
Affirmative		dormita	dormite	dormitemos	dormitai	dormitem
Negative (não)		não dormites	não dormite	não dormitemos	não dormiteis	não dormitem

¹Brazilian Portuguese.
²European Portuguese.

Related terms

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dormītāre; cf. also the Old Spanish adormidado, which may have been inherited from the Latin verb's past participle.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /doɾmiˈtaɾ/
Rhymes: -aɾ
Syllabification: dor‧mi‧tar

Verb

dormitar (first-person singular present dormito, first-person singular preterite dormité, past participle dormitado)

(intransitive) to doze or nap

Conjugation

Conjugation of dormitar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

		singular			plural
infinitive			dormitar
gerund			dormitando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		dormitado		dormitada
		plural		dormitados		dormitadas
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	dormito	dormitas^{^tú} dormitás^{^vos}	dormita	dormitamos	dormitáis	dormitan
	imperfect	dormitaba	dormitabas	dormitaba	dormitábamos	dormitabais	dormitaban
	preterite	dormité	dormitaste	dormitó	dormitamos	dormitasteis	dormitaron
	future	dormitaré	dormitarás	dormitará	dormitaremos	dormitaréis	dormitarán
	conditional	dormitaría	dormitarías	dormitaría	dormitaríamos	dormitaríais	dormitarían

subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	dormite	dormites^{^tú} dormités^{^vos²}	dormite	dormitemos	dormitéis	dormiten
	imperfect (ra)	dormitara	dormitaras	dormitara	dormitáramos	dormitarais	dormitaran
	imperfect (se)	dormitase	dormitases	dormitase	dormitásemos	dormitaseis	dormitasen
	future¹	dormitare	dormitares	dormitare	dormitáremos	dormitareis	dormitaren

imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		dormita^{^tú} dormitá^{^vos}	dormite	dormitemos	dormitad	dormiten
	negative		no dormites	no dormite	no dormitemos	no dormitéis	no dormiten

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

Related terms

dormir

References

^ Joan Coromines, José A Pascual (1983–1991) “dormitar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Further reading

“dormitar”, 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

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