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escusar
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Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese escusar, from Latin excūsāre.
Pronunciation
Verb
escusar (first-person singular present escuso, first-person singular preterite escusei, past participle escusado)
- (transitive) to excuse
- (transitive) to not need something, to avoid
- Quen ao sementar é mesquiño, pr'a seitura escusa fouciño (proverb)
- The one who is miserable sowing, won't need a sickle for the harvest.
- O que ben almorza escusa o xantar (proverb)
- The one who eats a good breakfast does not need dinner.
- 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 633:
- o que á de seer nõ se pode escusar, quer uena a torto, quer a dereyto
- You can't avoid the future, now if it comes crooked, now if it's right
- 1371, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Fueros municipales de Santiago y de su tierra, Madrid: Ediciones Castilla, page 434:
- Et demays foron buscar todos los outros coengos [...] et trouxeronnos por força et contra suas voontades et enssarraronnos con os outros enno dito thesouro [...] Et esteueron aly por espacio de noue dias [...] Et os uellos et fraquos que non podian sayr, ouueron de fazer dentro enno dito thesouro aquello que he nescessario et se non pode escussar.
- they went to fetch every other canon [...] and they brought them forcibly and against their wills and they locked them inside the treasury room [...] And they were there for nine days [...] And the elders and the weak ones, that couldn't get out, were forced to do inside the treasure that which is necessary and can't be avoided.
- (intransitive) to be unnecessary [with de ‘to do something’]
- 1813, anonymous author, Conversa no adro da igrexa:
- escusades de xurá-lo que volo creo mui ben
- You don't need to swear it, because I really believe you
Conjugation
1Less recommended.
Related terms
References
- Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “escusar”, 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), “escus”, 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), “escusar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- “escusar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “escusar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- “escusar”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2025
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “escusar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
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Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese escusar, from Latin excūsāre.
Pronunciation
Verb
escusar (first-person singular present escuso, first-person singular preterite escusei, past participle escusado)
- (transitive) to forgive; to pardon; to excuse
- (pronominal) to apologize [with de or por ‘for something’]
- (transitive) to excuse (to allow to leave)
- (transitive) to excuse; to justify (to be an acceptable reason for)
- Synonyms: justificar, ser desculpa para
Conjugation
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Further reading
- “escusar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
- “escusar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
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