confundir

Borrowed from Latin cōnfundere, with change of conjugation.

• Hyphenation: con‧fun‧dir

confundir (first-person singular present confundo, first-person singular preterite confundi, past participle confundido)

1. (transitive) to confuse; to confound (to lead someone into an incorrect conclusion or uncertainty)

   O mapa com errors confundiu os navegadores. ― The map with errors confused the navigators.

2. (pronominal) to be confused (to make a mistake) [with com ‘due to something’]

   Ela errou o caminho porque se confundiu. ― She missed the way because she got confused.

   Todo mundo se confunde com isso. ― Everyone gets confused with this.

3. (transitive) to mix up; to confuse (to mistake things for one another)

   Cuidado para não confundir as datas. ― Be careful not to mix the dates up.

4. (transitive) to mistake (something) [with com or (less common) por ‘for something else’]

   O cirurgião disse que quase confundira o fígado com o baço. ― The surgeon said he had almost mistaken the liver for the spleen.

5. (pronominal) to merge; to syncretize (to form a combination from different elements) [with com ‘with something’]

   Synonyms: juntar, sincretizar

   Naquela cidade a cultura ocidental se confunde com a oriental. ― In that city, Western culture merges with Eastern culture.

6. (obsolete, transitive) to confound; to thwart; to frustrate; to foil (to prevent from happening or succeeding)

   Synonym: impedir

   Desejamos que a rainha confunda as políticas de seus inimigos. ― We wish for the queen to confound her enemies’ politics.

• confuso

Borrowed from Latin cōnfundere. Doublet of cohonder.

• IPA^(key): /konfunˈdiɾ/ [kõɱ.fũn̪ˈd̪iɾ]

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• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: con‧fun‧dir

confundir (first-person singular present confundo, first-person singular preterite confundí, past participle confundido)

1. (transitive) to confuse, to throw off, to baffle, to perplex
2. (transitive, also pronominal) to mistake, to confuse, to mix up (misidentify)

   Mi abuelo confundió un calabacín con un pepino y lo puso en su ensalada.

   My grandpa mistook a zucchini for a cucumber and put it in his salad.

3. (transitive) to confound

• enturbiar

• “confundir”, 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