desmaiar

• esmaiar

Probably from Vulgar Latin *exmagāre (“deprive of power or strength”), from ex- + *magare (“to enable; empower”), from Frankish *magan, *mugan (“to be able”), from Proto-Germanic *maganą. Compare Old French esmaier, Old Occitan esmaiar, Portuguese esmagar, Spanish amagar, Spanish esmayar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [dəz.məˈja]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [dez.maˈjaɾ]

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desmaiar (first-person singular present desmaio, first-person singular preterite desmaí, past participle desmaiat)

1. (intransitive) to lose heart, to falter
2. (intransitive, pronominal) to faint

• desmai
• desmaiat

• “desmaiar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “desmaiar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• esmaiar

From Old Galician-Portuguese desmayar (13th century), from Old French esmaiier, from Proto-Germanic *magaz (“strong”).

• IPA^(key): [desmaˈjar]

desmaiar (first-person singular present desmaio, first-person singular preterite desmaiei, past participle desmaiado)

1. (pronominal) to faint

   Synonym: desfalecer

2. (intransitive) to dismay; to falter; to become discouraged; to weaken

   Synonyms: desfalecer, esmorecer

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “desmayar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “desmay”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “desmaiar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “desmaiar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “desmaiar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• esmaiar

Alteration of esmaiar, from Old French esmaier, from Vulgar Latin *exmagāre (“lose the strength”), from Frankish *magan (“to have strength”).^[1][2] Compare Galician desmaiar, Spanish desmayar and Spanish esmayar

• (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /dɨʒ.mai̯ˈaɾ/
• (Central, Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /dɨʒ.mɐi̯ˈaɾ/
• Hyphenation: des‧mai‧ar

desmaiar (first-person singular present desmaio, first-person singular preterite desmaiei, past participle desmaiado)

1. (intransitive) to faint (to lose consciousness)

   Synonyms: (colloquial) desacordar, desfalecer, esvair

2. (intransitive, figurative) to dishearten

   Synonyms: desanimar, esmorecer

3. (intransitive, figurative) to fall asleep suddenly, usually by excessive tiredness
4. (transitive) to cause a person to faint, often by drugging them and with criminal intentions

• desmaiado
• desmaio
• esmaecido