assumir

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.suˈmi]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.suˈmiɾ]

assumir (first-person singular present assumeixo, first-person singular preterite assumí, past participle assumit)

1. (transitive) to assume (power, responsibility etc.)

• assumible
• assumpció

• “assumir”, 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
• “assumir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “assumir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “assumir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin assumere.

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assumir

1. to assume (responsibility)

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 83.

Learned borrowing from Latin assūmere.

assumir (first-person singular present assumo, first-person singular preterite assumi, past participle assumido)

1. (ambitransitive) to assume (to take on a position or duty)
   • 2022 October 31, “Presidente eleito terá quatro dias a mais de mandato; entenda”, in Exame‎^[1], archived from the original on 1 November 2022:

     A partir de 2027, o presidente assume em 5 de janeiro, e os governadores, em 6 de janeiro.

     Starting 2027, the president assumes on January 5th, and the governors, January 6th.

2. (transitive) to take responsibility (to blame oneself for something; to acknowledge a fault)

   Synonym: admitir

3. (transitive) to take responsibility (to accept an obligation or liability)
4. (reflexive, idiomatic, informal) to come out of the closet [with para ‘to someone’]

   Synonym: sair do armário

• Sometimes, the English verb assume, when the sense is "to suppose it is true", is erroneously translated into Portuguese as assumir. Verbs carrying the correct sense according to the context include presumir and supor. The verb's meaning has been affected by the erroneous translation, and it is, sometimes, used with the meaning of supor and presumir.

• “assumir”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “assumir”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “assumir”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025