enojar

From Old Galician-Portuguese enojar (“to anger”), borrowed from Old Occitan enojar, from Vulgar Latin inodiāre (“make hateful”), from Latin odium (“hatred”). Compare ódio and enjoar.

Cognate with Catalan enutjar, Galician anoxar, Spanish enojar, Italian annoiare, French ennuyer and English annoy.

• Hyphenation: e‧no‧jar

enojar (first-person singular present enojo, first-person singular preterite enojei, past participle enojado)

1. to disgust (cause an intense dislike for something)

   Synonym: repugnar

• nojo

Borrowed from Old Occitan enojar, from Late Latin inodiāre. Compare Italian annoiare, French ennuyer, Portuguese nojo, Galician noxo and English annoy.

• IPA^(key): /enoˈxaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: e‧no‧jar

enojar (first-person singular present enojo, first-person singular preterite enojé, past participle enojado)

1. (transitive) to anger
2. (reflexive) to become angry

• Joan Coromines, José A Pascual (1984) “enojar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 635

• “enojar”, 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