vestir

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin vestīre.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

vestir (first-person singular present vesteixo, first-person singular preterite vestí, past participle vestit)

1. (transitive) to clothe, to dress (to put clothes on)
2. (reflexive) to put on; to get dressed
3. (transitive) to wear
4. (intransitive) to dress (to clothe oneself; to put on clothes)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• vestidor

Related terms

Further reading

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

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese vestir, from Latin vestiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /besˈtiɾ/, /bisˈtiɾ/

Verb

vestir (first-person singular present visto, third-person singular present viste, first-person singular preterite vestín, past participle vestido)
vestir (first-person singular present visto, third-person singular present veste, first-person singular preterite vestim or vesti, past participle vestido, reintegrationist norm)

1. (transitive) to wear

   Synonym: levar

2. (transitive) to dress, to clothe
3. (transitive) to coat

   Synonym: revestir

4. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to get dressed

   Synonyms: poñer, por

5. (ditransitive, with the indirect object taking de) to dress someone or get dressed with a given type of fabric or material

Conjugation

Derived terms

• vestiario
• vestido
• vestidor
• vestidura
• vestimenta

References

• “vestir” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “vestir” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “vestir” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “vestir” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
• “vestir” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “vestir” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “vestir” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French vestir, from Latin vestīre, present active infinitive of vestiō.

Verb

vestir

1. to dress

Conjugation

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• French: vêtir

References

• vêtir on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin vestīre, present active infinitive of vestiō.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Verb

vestir

1. (transitive) to dress

Conjugation

    Conjugation of vestir in Lengadocian (Central Occitan)

		simple			compound
infinitive		vestir			?er vestit
past participle		vestit			—
gerund		vestissent			?ent vestit
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		ieu	tu	el	nosautres	vosautres	eles
	present	vestissi	vestisses	vestís	vestissèm	vestissètz	vestisson
	imperfect	vestissiái	vestissiás	vestissiá	vestissiam	vestissiatz	vestissián
	preterite	vestiguèri	vestiguères	vestiguèt	vestiguèrem	vestiguèretz	vestiguèron
	future	vestirai	vestiràs	vestirà	vestirem	vestiretz	vestiràn
	conditional	vestiriái	vestiriás	vestiriá	vestiriam	vestiriatz	vestirián
	conditional 2nd form1	vestiguèra	vestiguèras	vestiguèra	vestigueram	vestigueratz	vestiguèran
compound tenses	present perfect	use the present tense of ?er plus the past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect tense of ?er plus the past participle
	past anterior	use the preterite tense of ?er plus the past participle
	future perfect	use the future tense of ?er plus the past participle
	conditional perfect	use the conditional tense of ?er plus the past participle
subjunctive		que ieu	que tu	que el	que nosautres	que vosautres	que eles
	present	vestisca	vestiscas	vestisca	vestiscam	vestiscatz	vestiscan
	imperfect	vestiguèsse	vestiguèsses	vestiguèsse	vestiguèssem	vestiguèssetz	vestiguèsson
compound tenses	past	use the present subjunctive of ?er plus the past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect subjunctive of ?er plus the past participle
imperative		—	tu	—	nosautres	vosautres	—
			vestís		vestiscam	vestissetz	1Now chiefly obsolete, still in use in some Limousin and Vivaro-Alpin dialects

References

• Alibert, Louis (1965) Dictionnaire occitan - français : d'après les parlers languedociens (in French), Toulouse: Institut d' Etudes occitanes, →ISBN

Old French

Etymology

From Latin vestīre, present active infinitive of vestiō.

Verb

vestir

1. to dress; to clothe

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Related terms

• vesteure
• vestement

Descendants

• Middle French: vestir
  • French: vêtir

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese vestir, from Latin vestiō.

Pronunciation

• Homophone: vesti (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: ves‧tir

Verb

vestir (first-person singular present visto, third-person singular present veste, first-person singular preterite vesti, past participle vestido)

1. (transitive) to wear; to don (to have an item of clothing on oneself)

   A testemunha disse que o ladrão vestia um boné e uma camisa comprida.

   The witness said the thief wore a cap and a long shirt.

2. (transitive) to put on (to put an item of clothing on oneself)

   Vesti uma camiseta antes de sair.

   I put a T-shirt on before going out.

3. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to get dressed (to put clothes on oneself)

   Vista-se logo senão nos atrasaremos.

   Get dressed fast otherwise we’ll be late.

4. (transitive) to dress; to clothe (to put clothes on someone)

   Ela vestiu o filho para que ele não passasse frio.

   She dressed her son so he wouldn’t be cold.

5. (ditransitive, with the indirect object taking de) to dress someone with a given type of fabric or material

   A empresária precisa estar vestida de seda.

   The businesswoman needs to be dressed in silk.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (to don): trajar, usar
• (to put on): pôr

Related terms

• vestimenta
• vestuário

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin vestiō. Cognate with English vest.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /besˈtiɾ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: ves‧tir

Verb

vestir (first-person singular present visto, first-person singular preterite vestí, past participle vestido)

1. to dress, to clothe, to attire
2. to wear
3. to adorn, to bedeck, to embellish
4. to disguise, to cover up
5. to make clothes for, to dress
6. (reflexive) to get dressed
   • 1987, “Vístete”, in Bravo!, performed by Nacha Pop:

     Vístete, te sigo esperando blusa aquí, falda ya / Cálzate, pon cuero sobre seda negra / Vístete, aguantaré vístete, te sigo esperando

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

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

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin vestiō. Compare Italian vestire.

Verb

vestir

1. (transitive) to dress

Conjugation

• Venetian conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Related terms

• vestirse