empetitir

From en- +‎ petit +‎ -ir.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əm.pə.tiˈti]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [em.pe.tiˈtiɾ]

empetitir (first-person singular present empetiteixo, first-person singular preterite empetití, past participle empetitit)

1. (transitive) to make smaller or appear to make smaller, to shrink
2. (intransitive, pronominal) to grow smaller, to shrink
3. (figurative, transitive) to trivialize, to downplay

• (make/become smaller): enxiquir
• (downplay): minimitzar

• empetitiment

• “empetitir”, 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