evitar

From Latin ēvītāre.

evitar (first-person singular indicative present evito, past participle evitáu)

1. to avoid

Borrowed from Latin ēvītāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ə.βiˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ə.viˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [e.viˈtaɾ]
• Homophone: habitar (Central)

evitar (first-person singular present evito, first-person singular preterite evití, past participle evitat)

1. to avoid, prevent from happening or encountering

• evitable

• “evitar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “evitar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “evitar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “evitar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin ēvītāre.

evitar (first-person singular present evito, first-person singular preterite evitei, past participle evitado)

1. to avoid

• evitábel, evitable

• “evitar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• “evitar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

From Latin ēvītāre.

• Hyphenation: e‧vi‧tar

evitar (first-person singular present evito, first-person singular preterite evitei, past participle evitado)

1. to avoid

For quotations using this term, see Citations:evitar.

• evitável

• “evitar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Borrowed from Latin ēvītāre whence English inevitable.

• IPA^(key): /ebiˈtaɾ/ [e.β̞iˈt̪aɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: e‧vi‧tar

evitar (first-person singular present evito, first-person singular preterite evité, past participle evitado)

1. to avoid, to bypass, to evade, to circumvent, to dodge, to shun, to eschew (to steer clear of)

   Synonyms: rehuir, esquivar

   Después de haberlo evitado muchas horas, acabó por decirnos la verdad.

   After having avoided it for several hours, he ended up telling us the truth.

2. to avoid, to prevent, to keep from, to stop from, to avert, to obviate, to deter
3. to help (abstain from doing) (always in the negative)

   No puedo evitar pensar en lo que podría haber sido si yo simplemente hubiera tomado el riesgo.

   I can't help but wonder what could have been if I had just taken the risk.

4. to spare, to save (to relieve someone having to experience something)
5. to guard against, to ward off
6. (reflexive) to spare oneself

• “evitar”, 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