hesitar

Borrowed from Latin haesitāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

hesitar (first-person singular present hesito, first-person singular preterite hesití, past participle hesitat)

1. to hesitate

• hesitació

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

Borrowed from Latin haesitāre.

• Hyphenation: he‧si‧tar

hesitar (first-person singular present hesito, first-person singular preterite hesitei, past participle hesitado)

1. to hesitate

• hesitação

• “hesitar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

From Latin haesitāre.

• IPA^(key): /esiˈtaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: he‧si‧tar

hesitar (first-person singular present hesito, first-person singular preterite hesité, past participle hesitado)

1. (rare) to hesitate

   Synonyms: vacilar, dudar

• “hesitar”, 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