abolir

Borrowed from Latin abolēre.

abolir (first-person singular indicative present abolo, past participle abolíu)

1. abolish (to end a law)

• abolición

Borrowed from Latin abolēre, with normal change of conjugation to -ir.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ə.βuˈli]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ə.buˈli]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.boˈliɾ]
• Rhymes: -i(ɾ)

abolir (first-person singular present aboleixo, first-person singular preterite abolí, past participle abolit)

1. to abolish

• abolició

• “abolir”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “abolir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “abolir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “abolir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Latin abolēre.

• IPA^(key): /a.bɔ.liʁ/

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abolir

1. (transitive) to abolish
   • 1856, “Mémoire sur l'île de Chio présenté par M. Fustel de Coulanges, membre de l'École française d'Athènes”, in Archives des missions scientifiques et littéraires‎^[1], volume 5, Paris, page 624:

     Plus tard, la démogérontie fit un marché avec le gouvernement, et, moyennant un droit fixe et annuel, elle fit abolir à la fois le monopole et l'impôt, et obtint que le commerce fût libre.

     Later, the Demogeronty made a deal with the government, and, by means of a fixed annual fee, it abolished both the monopoly and the tax, and obtained free trade.

• A distinction is drawn in legal usage between abolir and abroger, with the latter requiring a formal action, and is used (for example) of laws, whereas abolition is an incidental effect of other actions, or is not performed by a legislative body.

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

• abolitif
• abolition

• “abolir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Learned borrowing from Latin abolēre.

abolir (no stressed present indicative or subjunctive, first-person singular preterite abolín, past participle abolido)
abolir (first-person singular present abulo, third-person singular present abole, first-person singular preterite abolim or aboli, past participle abolido, reintegrationist norm)

1. (transitive) to abolish

• abolición

• “abolir”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “abolir” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

abolir

1. to abolish

Borrowed from Latin abolēre (“destroy, abolish”), with change of conjugation.

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• Hyphenation: a‧bo‧lir

abolir (first-person singular present (Portugal only; missing in Brazil) abulo, third-person singular present abole, first-person singular preterite aboli, past participle abolido)

1. (transitive) to abolish

• “abolir”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “abolir”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from Latin abolēre. First attested in 1500.

• IPA^(key): /aboˈliɾ/ [a.β̞oˈliɾ]

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• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: a‧bo‧lir

abolir (first-person singular present abolo, first-person singular preterite abolí, past participle abolido)

1. (transitive) to abolish
2. (transitive) to revoke

   Synonym: revocar

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “abolir”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 17

• “abolir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024