humillar

• humilhar (reintegrationist)

From Old Galician-Portuguese omillar (Cantigas de Santa Maria, 13th century); from Late Latin humiliāre, from humus (“ground, soil”). Compare Portuguese humilhar.

• IPA^(key): /umiˈʎaɾ/

humillar (first-person singular present humillo, first-person singular preterite humillei, past participle humillado)

1. (transitive) to humiliate

   Synonym: vexar

2. (pronominal) to humble, to abase

   Synonym: abaixar

3. (pronominal) to bow, to lower, to salute

   Synonym: abaixar

   • 1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 642:

     Et, quando forõ ante dona Xemena, o mouro omillouse a ela et a suas fillas, et quiso beyiar as mãos a dona Xemena; mays ela nõ llas quiso dar.

     And when they were before lady Xemena, the Moor man bowed before her and her daughters, and he wanted to kiss lady Xemena,s hands, but she didn't allow him to.

• humillante
• milladoiro

• humillación

• “humillar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “omillar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “omill”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “humillar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “humillar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Altered from Old Spanish homillar, a borrowing from Late Latin humiliāre.

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: hu‧mi‧llar

humillar (first-person singular present humillo, first-person singular preterite humillé, past participle humillado)

1. (transitive) to humiliate

   Synonym: (Mexico) sobajar

• “humillar”, 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
• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “humilde”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 426