digerir

Borrowed from Latin dīgerere (“to separate, to distribute”), with normal change of conjugation to -ir.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [di.ʒəˈɾi]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [di.d͡ʒeˈɾiɾ]

digerir (first-person singular present digereixo, first-person singular preterite digerí, past participle digerit)

1. to arrange, to bring in order
2. to digest

   Synonym: pair

3. to handle, to cope with

• digestió

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

Borrowed from Latin dīgerere (“to separate; to distribute”), with change of conjugation.

• (Brazil) Homophone: digeri

digerir (first-person singular present digiro, third-person singular present digere, first-person singular preterite digeri, past participle digerido)

1. to digest (to break down and absorb food in the alimentary canal)

   Vacas conseguem digerir grama.

   Cows can digest grass.

2. (figurative) to digest (to think over and arrange methodically in the mind)

   Não conseguia digerir a informação.

   He couldn’t digest the information.

3. (figurative) to deal with; to come to terms with; to cope

   Ele ainda não digeriu a morte da mãe.

   He still hasn’t come to terms with his mother’s death.

• digestir (obsolete or dialectal)

From Latin dīgerō (“separate, distribute”).

• IPA^(key): /dixeˈɾiɾ/ [d̪i.xeˈɾiɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: di‧ge‧rir

digerir (first-person singular present digiero, first-person singular preterite digerí, past participle digerido)

1. to digest

• “digerir”, 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