esconder

From Latin abscondere.

esconder

1. to hide

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese asconder (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin abscondere.

• IPA^(key): /eskonˈdeɾ/ [es̺.kon̪ˈd̪eɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Hyphenation: es‧con‧der

esconder (first-person singular present escondo, first-person singular preterite escondín, past participle escondido)
esconder (first-person singular present escondo, first-person singular preterite escondim or escondi, past participle escondido, reintegrationist norm)

1. to hide; to conceal

   Synonyms: agochar, ocultar

   • 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 59:

     Et desque chegares a España, yredes por hũa çidade que he chamada Burgos, et entrãdo en ela tãgerse an todo los sinos sen aiuda de omẽ; et vos cõ medo leixaredes a rrua por que entrardes et esconderuos edes en casa de hũu home; et y seera moy grã cõtenda ontre ti et tous cõpaneiros sobre la cabeça, porque o chantres querraa leuar para Braagã, et tu para a igleia de Santiago.

     And when you arrive to Spain, you'll pass through a city called Burgos, and entering in it all the bells will toll without the help of man; and you, with fear, will left the street by which you entered, and you'll hide in the house of a man; and there will be a big argument in between you and your companions about the head, because the chanter will want to take it to Braga, and you to the church of Santiago

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “esconder”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “scond”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “esconder”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “esconder”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “esconder”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “esconder” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “esconder”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese asconder, from Latin abscondere. Doublet of absconder, a borrowing.

• Hyphenation: es‧con‧der

esconder (first-person singular present escondo, first-person singular preterite escondi, past participle escondido)

1. (transitive) to hide

For quotations using this term, see Citations:esconder.

• esconso
• escuso

• absconder, asconder (both obsolete)

Inherited from Old Spanish esconder, from an original asconder (via replacement of the prefix with es-), from Latin abscondere. It formerly showed the expected diphthongization of stressed Latin /ŏ/ in rhizotonic conjugations (cf. older escuendo), but this was later levelled out by analogy with arrhizotonic conjugations. Doublet of absconder and cognate with English abscond.

• IPA^(key): /eskonˈdeɾ/ [es.kõn̪ˈd̪eɾ]

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• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: es‧con‧der

esconder (first-person singular present escondo, first-person singular preterite escondí, past participle escondido)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to hide

   Synonym: ocultar

   Los pájaros se escondieron entre las hojas y comenzaron a cantar.

   The birds hid among the leaves and started to sing.

   El gato ha estado escondiéndose debajo del sofá desde que se levantaron los chicos.

   The cat has been hiding under the couch since the kids woke up.

• Esconder is a false friend and does not mean “ensconce”. The word for “ensconce” in Spanish is instalarse.

• “esconder”, 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