incumbir

Borrowed from Latin incumbere, with change of conjugation.

• Hyphenation: in‧cum‧bir

incumbir (first-person singular present incumbo, first-person singular preterite incumbi, past participle incumbido)

1. to delegate
   • 1938, Graciliano Ramos, “Festa ”, in Vidas Seccas , Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, pages 107-108:

     Mas Fabiano tinha comprado dez varas de panno branco na loja e incumbira sinha Terta de arranjar farpellas para elle e para os filhos.

     But Fabiano had bought ten varas of white cloth at the store and given sinha Terta the task of providing clothes for him and the children.

From Latin incumbō.

• IPA^(key): /inkumˈbiɾ/
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: in‧cum‧bir

incumbir (first-person singular present incumbo, first-person singular preterite incumbí, past participle incumbido)

1. to be incumbent
2. to correspond to, to have to do with

   No nos incumbe.

   It has nothing to do with us.

• “incumbir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy , 10 December 2024