prescindir

Learned borrowing from Latin praescindere, with normal change of conjugation to -ir.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pɾə.sinˈdi]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [pɾe.sinˈdiɾ]

prescindir (first-person singular present prescindeixo, first-person singular preterite prescindí, past participle prescindit)

1. (intransitive) to disregard, to leave out
2. (intransitive) to do without
   • 1962, Joan Fuster, Nosaltres, els valencians:

     La València de l'època foral s'acostuma a prescindir d'una bona fracció del seu regne.

     The Valencia of the epoch of fueros became accustomed to doing without a good fraction of her kingdom.

• prescindible

• “prescindir”, 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

From Latin praescindō (“to separate”), formed from Latin prae- (“before”) +‎ scindō (“split, divide”). Compare Spanish prescindir, Italian prescindere and English prescind.

• Hyphenation: pres‧cin‧dir

prescindir (first-person singular present prescindo, first-person singular preterite prescindi, past participle prescindido)

1. (intransitive, transitive or reflexive) to do without; to dispense with [(without or with a reflexive pronoun) with de ‘something’ or de (+ infinitive) ‘doing something’; or (without a reflexive pronoun) with direct object ‘something’]
   • 1990, Estados-membros da Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa (CPLP), Acordo Ortográfico da Língua Portuguesa (1990):

     Prescinde-se de acento gráfico para distinguir palavras oxítonas homógrafas, mas heterofónicas/heterofônicas, do tipo de cor (ô), substantivo, e cor (ó), elemento da locução de cor; colher (ê), verbo, e colher (é), substantivo.

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• prescindível (“optional, dispensable”)

From Latin praescindō, formed from Latin prae- (“before”) +‎ scindō (“split, divide”). Equivalent to pre- + escindir.

• IPA^(key): /pɾesθinˈdiɾ/ [pɾes.θĩn̪ˈd̪iɾ] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /pɾesinˈdiɾ/ [pɾe.sĩn̪ˈd̪iɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: pres‧cin‧dir

prescindir (first-person singular present prescindo, first-person singular preterite prescindí, past participle prescindido)

1. (intransitive) [with de ‘something’] to do without
   • 1975, Jorge Luis Borges, “The Other”, in The Book of Sand, page 15:

     Salvo en las severas páginas de la historia, los hechos memorables prescinden de frases memorables.

     Except in the severe pages of history, memorable deeds do without memorable phrases.

• “prescindir”, 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