desprezar

From Old Galician-Portuguese despreçar, des- +‎ preçar, from preciar (“to price, to hold dear”), from Latin pretium (“price”); or possibly through a Vulgar Latin *dispretiāre. Compare English depreciate, also Spanish despreciar, Italian disprezzare.

• IPA^(key): [despɾeˈθaɾ]

desprezar (first-person singular present desprezo, first-person singular preterite desprecei, past participle desprezado)

1. (takes a reflexive pronoun, archaic) to devalue, depreciate
2. (transitive) to despise (regard with contempt or scorn)
3. (transitive) to neglect, slight

• Note: desprez- are changed to desprec- before front vowels (e).

• “despreçar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “despre” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “desprezar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “desprezar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

From Old Galician-Portuguese despreçar, des- +‎ preçar, from preciar (“to price, to hold dear”), from Latin pretium (“price”), from Proto-Indo-European *preti- (“back”); or possibly through a Vulgar Latin *dispretiāre. Compare English depreciate, also Spanish despreciar, Italian disprezzare.

• Hyphenation: des‧pre‧zar

desprezar (first-person singular present desprezo, first-person singular preterite desprezei, past participle desprezado)

1. to despise (regard with contempt or scorn)

   Synonyms: aviltar, menosprezar, rebaixar

   Antonyms: adorar, gostar

2. to ignore

   Synonyms: desconsiderar, ignorar

   Antonyms: levar em conta, prezar