humiliar

Borrowed from Latin humiliāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [u.mi.liˈa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [u.mi.liˈaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

humiliar (first-person singular present humilio, first-person singular preterite humilií, past participle humiliat)

1. (transitive) to bow
2. (transitive) to humiliate
   • 1932, Joan Puig i Ferreter, Camins de França:

     Afegí que jo no era intel·ligent, que havia tingut prou ocasions d'observar-ho, que sovint entenia les coses a l'inrevés i que no faria res de bo de mi. En resum, em rebaixà, m'insultà, m'humilià com només sap fer-ho una francesa irritada.

     She added that I was not intelligent, that she's had enough occasions to observe that, that I often got things backwards, and that I would never make good. In summary, she dressed me down, insulted me, and humiliated me as only an irritated Frenchwoman knows how to do.

3. (reflexive) to humble (oneself)
   • 1932, Joan Puig i Ferreter, Camins de França:

     Vaig veure amb la imaginació la figura terrosa de l'ajudant, davant la qual hauria d'humiliar-me. El veia amb els ulls roigs i extraviats de quan s'enrabiava, la cara llarga, unes dents que em volien mossegar.

     I saw with my imagination the earthly figure of the assistant in front of whom I would have to humble myself. I saw him with the bulging red eyes from when he would get angry, the long face, teeth that wanted to bite me.

• humil
• humiliació

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