renunciar

Borrowed from Latin renuntiāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [rə.nun.siˈa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [re.nun.siˈaɾ]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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renunciar (first-person singular present renuncio, first-person singular preterite renuncií, past participle renunciat)

1. to renounce, refuse, reject
2. to give up

• renúncia
• renunciament

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

Borrowed from Latin renuntiāre.

renunciar

1. to renounce, forsake, abandon

Learned borrowing from Latin renūntiāre.

• Hyphenation: re‧nun‧ci‧ar

renunciar (first-person singular present renuncio, first-person singular preterite renunciei, past participle renunciado)

1. (transitive or intransitive) to renounce, to give up [with transitive or a ‘a belief, a perk, etc.’]
2. (transitive or intransitive) to reject [with transitive or a ‘something, e.g. an offer’]
3. (transitive or intransitive) to abdicate, to resign [with transitive or a ‘a position’]

• renúncia
• renunciável

• “renunciar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Learned borrowing from Latin renuntiāre. Cognate with English renounce.

• IPA^(key): /renunˈθjaɾ/ [re.nũn̟ˈθjaɾ] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /renunˈsjaɾ/ [re.nũnˈsjaɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: re‧nun‧ciar

renunciar (first-person singular present renuncio, first-person singular preterite renuncié, past participle renunciado)

1. (intransitive or transitive) to renounce, to abandon, to give up, to relinquish, to do without [with a or (sometimes) transitive ‘something currently possessed or done, or something that one can have’]
   • 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:

     Hija de mi corazón, mientras no te sometas por entero, no tendrás paz; mientras no renuncies a ese perverso juicio de las determinaciones superiores, no alcanzará tu espíritu sencillez ni pureza, ni la humildad que ha de acercarte a Dios.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2015 October 26, “Tribuna”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Por más que organizativamente tenga sentido para no perder el control del partido, en una situación de retroceso en las encuestas es más controvertido renunciar a los votos […] .

     However much organizational sense it makes not to lose control of the party, when falling behind in the polls it is more controversial to relinquish the votes […]

2. (intransitive) to renounce, to reject [with a ‘a project, endeavor, idea, belief, goal, command, order, system, method, weapons etc.’]
3. (intransitive) to quit, to resign [with a ‘a job, a position’]

   renunciar a su trabajo

   resign from one's job

   renunciar a su cargo

   resign from one's post

4. (intransitive) to step down, to resign, to abdicate [with a ‘from a position of authority’]
5. (catenative) to refuse [with a (+ infinitive) ‘to do something’]
   • 1882, Benito Pérez Galdós, El amigo Manso, chapter 46:

     Sobre todo di mi opinión, y la señora, muy complacida, renunció a adquirir muchos objetos de dudoso gusto, a los cuales puse mi veto.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1911, José Ingenieros, El hombre mediocre:

     La Rutina […] es el hábito de renunciar a pensar.

     The routine […] is the habit of refusing to think.

• “renunciar”, 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