delatar

From delat.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [də.ləˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [de.laˈtaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

delatar (first-person singular present delato, first-person singular preterite delatí, past participle delatat)

1. to betray, give away

   Synonym: xivar

   • 2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 1, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:

     Però m'hi vaig fixar i una ganyota delatava el nerviosisme interior: obria i tancava els llavis com un ratpenat.

     But I started paying attention, and a grimace gave away his interior nervousness: he opened and closed his lips like a bat.

• “delatar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Latin dēlātus.

• Hyphenation: de‧la‧tar

delatar (first-person singular present delato, first-person singular preterite delatei, past participle delatado)

1. (transitive) to grass; to snitch (to inform on)

   Synonyms: denunciar, dedurar, alcaguetar

• delação

• “delatar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “delatar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

From Latin delātus. Cognate with Scottish dialectal English delate. Also, compare English defer.

• IPA^(key): /delaˈtaɾ/ [d̪e.laˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: de‧la‧tar

delatar (first-person singular present delato, first-person singular preterite delaté, past participle delatado)

1. to inform on, squeal, to rat out

   Synonym: chivar

2. give away, betray, belie, reveal

   Synonym: traicionar

   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 42:

     Hay varios medios para hacerlos caer, cuando pasan entonando su fatídico tué, tué, tué, que es la única señal que delatar su presencia', pues son invisibles para todos los que no son Brujos.

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   • 1978, “¿Qué hace una chica como tú en un sitio como este?”, performed by Burning:

     Los años te delatan, nena, / estás fuera de sitio

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• “delatar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28