permitir

Learned borrowing from Latin permittere.

permitir (first-person singular present permito, first-person singular preterite permitín, past participle permitido)
permitir (first-person singular present permito, first-person singular preterite permitim or permiti, past participle permitido, reintegrationist norm)

1. to permit, to allow

• “permitir”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• “permitir” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Borrowed from Latin permittere.

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /peχ.mi.ˈti(χ)/
• Hyphenation: per‧mi‧tir

permitir (first-person singular present permito, first-person singular preterite permiti, past participle permitido)

1. to permit, allow, tolerate
2. to enable

For quotations using this term, see Citations:permitir.

• permissão

Borrowed from Latin permittere.

• IPA^(key): /peɾmiˈtiɾ/

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: per‧mi‧tir

permitir (first-person singular present permito, first-person singular preterite permití, past participle permitido)

1. to allow, permit

   Synonym: autorizar

   No les permitieron ir.

   They were not allowed to go.

2. (pronominal) to afford, to allow

   No puedo permitirme comprarlo.

   I can't allow myself to buy it.

3. (pronominal) to indulge in

• Used without a preposition, as is demonstrated in the example above

• “permitir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014