tergiversar

Learned borrowing from Latin tergiversārī.

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

tergiversar (first-person singular present tergiverso, first-person singular preterite tergiversí, past participle tergiversat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/

1. (transitive) to misrepresent, to twist or distort (the meaning of)

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

From Latin tergiversāri.

• Hyphenation: ter‧gi‧ver‧sar

tergiversar (first-person singular present tergiverso, first-person singular preterite tergiversei, past participle tergiversado)

1. to tergiversate (to evade an issue)

• tergiversação

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

From Latin tergiversāri. Cognate with English tergiversate.

• IPA^(key): /teɾxibeɾˈsaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ter‧gi‧ver‧sar

tergiversar (first-person singular present tergiverso, first-person singular preterite tergiversé, past participle tergiversado)

1. to misrepresent, to twist, to distort
2. to tergiversate, to prevaricate

   Synonym: prevaricar

• “tergiversar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28