apostatar

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin apostatāre (“to forsake one's religion, to apostatize”), from Ancient Greek ἀποστατέω (apostatéō, “to stand aloof from; to fall away (from the divine)”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ə.pus.təˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ə.pos.təˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.pos.taˈtaɾ]
• Homophone: apostatà
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

apostatar (first-person singular present apostato, first-person singular preterite apostatí, past participle apostatat)

1. to apostatize

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin apostatāre (“to forsake one's religion, to apostatize”), from Ancient Greek ἀποστατέω (apostatéō, “stand aloof from; fall away (from the divine)”).

• Hyphenation: a‧pos‧ta‧tar

apostatar (first-person singular present apostato, first-person singular preterite apostatei, past participle apostatado)

1. to commit apostasy

From Ecclesiastical Latin apostatāre (“to forsake one's religion, to apostatize”), from Ancient Greek ἀποστατέω (apostatéō, “stand aloof from; fall away (from the divine)”).

• IPA^(key): /apostaˈtaɾ/ [a.pos.t̪aˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧pos‧ta‧tar

apostatar (first-person singular present apostato, first-person singular preterite apostaté, past participle apostatado)

1. to apostatize

• “apostatar”, 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