decer

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese decer (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), probably from Vulgar Latin *descidere,[1] from descendo (“dēscendere”). Doublet of the borrowing descender. Cognate with Portuguese descer and Old Spanish deçir.

• IPA^(key): [deˈθeɾ]

decer (first-person singular present dezo, first-person singular preterite decín, past participle decido)

1. (dated) to descend, to go down
   • 1390, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 806:

     quando chegou aos visos altos que som alende da ponte, deceu cõ hũu daquelles caualeyros que leuaua

     when he arrived to one of those high vantage points that are beyond the bridge, he descended with one of those knights he kept with him

   • 1746, Martín Sarmiento, Coloquio:

     Enton, nosa dona deceuse, à pè quedo, do seu carricoche

     Then our lady descended, sure-footed, from her carriage

   Synonyms: baixar, descender

   Antonyms: ascender, poxar, subir, upar

• Note: dec- are changed to dez- before back vowels (a, o).

• “decer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “decer” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “decer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “decer” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “descer” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• deçer

Probably from Vulgar Latin *descidere, from dēscendere. Cognate with Old Spanish deçir.

• IPA^(key): /de.ˈt͡seɾ/
• Rhymes: -eɾ

decer

1. to descend, to go down

• Galician: decer
• Portuguese: descer

• Universo Cantigas - "decer"