esquivar

From esquiu +‎ -ar.

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• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

esquivar (first-person singular present esquivo, first-person singular preterite esquiví, past participle esquivat)

1. (transitive) to avoid, to dodge, to evade
2. (transitive) to scare off, to frighten away
3. (reflexive) to shy away, to withdraw

• (avoid): eludir, evitar
• (frighten): espantar
• (escape): evadir-se

• “esquivar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• eschivar (Languedoc, Limousin)

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esquivar (Languedoc)

1. (transitive) to dodge (a blow), duck

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 280.

From esquivo (“asocial; elusive; untamable”) +‎ -ar.

• Hyphenation: es‧qui‧var

esquivar (first-person singular present esquivo, first-person singular preterite esquivei, past participle esquivado)

1. to eschew, to shun
2. to avoid (to keep away from)
3. to swerve (turn aside or deviate to avoid impact)

• (to shun): desdenhar, desprezar, menoscabar, menosprezar
• (to avoid): evitar

From Old French eschiver (“to dread, shun, avoid”) (modern French esquiver), from Frankish *skiuhan (“to dread, shun, avoid”), from Proto-Germanic *skiuhwaną, *skiwaną (“to frighten”). Cognate with English eschew, Old High German sciuhen (“to frighten, make fearful”), and Dutch schuwen (“to caution”). More at shy.

• IPA^(key): /eskiˈbaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: es‧qui‧var

esquivar (first-person singular present esquivo, first-person singular preterite esquivé, past participle esquivado)

1. to dodge, to duck, to evade
2. to avoid, to bypass, to sidestep, to get around, to circumvent

• “esquivar”, 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