desistir

Borrowed from Latin dēsistere, with normal change of conjugation to -ir. First attested in 1446.^[1]

desistir (first-person singular present desisteixo, first-person singular preterite desistí, past participle desistit)

1. (intransitive) to desist

• desistiment

• “desistir”, 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
• “desistir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “desistir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Latin dēsistere.

• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -iɾ
• Homophone: desisti (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: de‧sis‧tir

desistir (first-person singular present desisto, first-person singular preterite desisti, past participle desistido) (intransitive)

1. to desist [with de ‘from something’]
2. to give up [with de ‘something’]
3. to revoke [with de ‘something said’]
4. (Brazil, colloquial) to take a shit

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

Borrowed from Latin dēsistere.

• IPA^(key): /desisˈtiɾ/ [d̪e.sisˈt̪iɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: de‧sis‧tir

desistir (first-person singular present desisto, first-person singular preterite desistí, past participle desistido)

1. to desist, to give up
2. (law) to waive a right

• “desistir”, 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