escaecer

• escaicer
• esqueicer (Western Asturias)
• isqueicer (Cunqueiru)
• esquicer (Patsuezu)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *excadescere, derived ultimately from Latin cadere (“fall”). Compare Portuguese esquecer.

• IPA^(key): /eskaeˈθeɾ/ [es.ka.eˈθeɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: es‧ca‧e‧cer

escaecer (first-person singular indicative present escaezo, past participle escaecíu)

1. to slip away, disappear

   Tenía equí unes ablanes y escaeciérenseme sin saber per ónde

   I had here some hazelnuts and they disappeared I don't know where

   • 1879, Félix Aramburu y Zuloaga, Pachón y Pachín:

     Y, andando andando, escaezse
     En un rincón onde pasa
     Sin gorgutar hores muertes...

     And walking, walking, he slips away
     Into a corner where he spends
     Dead hours without saying a word...

2. to forget

   Synonym: olvidar

Perhaps from descaecer (“id.”) with a substitution of prefix.

Old Spanish had another escaecer which meant "forget" and was cognate to the Asturian word above, as well as to the Portuguese esquecer, also meaning "to forget".

• IPA^(key): /eskaeˈθeɾ/ [es.ka.eˈθeɾ] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /eskaeˈseɾ/ [es.ka.eˈseɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: es‧ca‧e‧cer

escaecer (first-person singular present escaezco, first-person singular preterite escaecí, past participle escaecido)

1. to weaken

   Synonym: debilitar

• “escaecer”, 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