travestir

Borrowed from Italian travestire.

• IPA^(key): /tʁa.vɛs.tiʁ/

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travestir

1. (transitive) to disguise
2. (reflexive) to dress up (especially in clothes of the opposite sex)
3. (transitive, derogatory) to travesty (to make a travesty of), distort

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

• “travestir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From French travestir.

travestir (first-person singular present travisto, third-person singular present traviste, first-person singular preterite travestín, past participle travestido)
travestir (first-person singular present travisto, third-person singular present traveste, first-person singular preterite travestim or travesti, past participle travestido, reintegrationist norm)

1. to dress up in drag (as members of the opposite sex)

• “travestir”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “travestir” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

From French travestir.

• Homophone: travesti (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: tra‧ves‧ti

travestir (first-person singular present travisto, third-person singular present traveste, first-person singular preterite travesti, past participle travestido)

1. to cross-dress (wear clothes typically associated with the opposite sex)
2. to disguise, masquerade

Borrowed from French travestir.

• IPA^(key): /tɾabesˈtiɾ/ [t̪ɾa.β̞esˈt̪iɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: tra‧ves‧tir

travestir (first-person singular present travisto, first-person singular preterite travestí, past participle travestido)

1. to dress up in drag (as members of the opposite sex)

• “travestir”, 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