disminuir

Borrowed from Latin dīminuere (“to break into small pieces; to diminish”), with normal change of conjugation to -ir and change of prefix based on the more common Latin dis-.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [diz.mi.nuˈi]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [diz.mi.nuˈiɾ]

disminuir (first-person singular present disminueixo, first-person singular preterite disminuí, past participle disminuït)

1. (ambitransitive) to decrease, to diminish

   Synonyms: minvar, decréixer

   Antonyms: augmentar, acréixer

• disminuït

• disminució

• “disminuir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

From Latin diminuere (“to break into small pieces; to diminish”).

• IPA^(key): /dismiˈnwiɾ/ [d̪iz.miˈnwiɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: dis‧mi‧nuir

disminuir (first-person singular present disminuyo, first-person singular preterite disminuí, past participle disminuido)

1. to decrease

   Synonym: decrecer

   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 48:

     Las proporciones de sus atributos distintivos, han disminuído lo suficiente para hacer ahora ridículo lo que ayer era espantoso.

     The proportions of his [the Devil's] distinctive attributes have diminished enough to make ridiculous today what was terrifying yesterday.

• mermar
• rebajar
• reducir

• “disminuir”, 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