esvarar

Compare Spanish esbarar, resbalar.

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)
• Homophone: esverar
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

esvarar (first-person singular present esvaro, first-person singular preterite esvarí, past participle esvarat)

1. (dialectal, intransitive, reflexive) to slip, to slide

   Synonym: relliscar

2. (dialectal, intransitive) to slip up (make a mistake)

• “esvarar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “esvarar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Vulgar Latin *exvarō, from Latin ex- +‎ vārus (“bent outwards”).

• IPA^(key): /esβaˈɾaɾ/

esvarar (first-person singular present esvaro, first-person singular preterite esvarei, past participle esvarado)

1. to slide (to move on a low friction surface)
2. to slip (to lose one’s traction on a slippery surface)
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, page 355:

     Mays esuarioulle a saeta, en tal gisa que Éytor nõ foy malchagado

     But the arrow slipped in such a way that Hector was not fatally wounded

• esborrexer
• (to slide): deslizar
• (to slip): escorregar, eslimar

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “esvarar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “esvarar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “esvarar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “esvarar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “esvarar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

esvarar (first-person singular present esvaro, first-person singular preterite esvaré, past participle esvarado)

1. Alternative form of esbarar

• “esvarar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28