esvarar

Compare Spanish esbarar, resbalar.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əz.bəˈɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əz.vəˈɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ez.vaˈɾaɾ]
• Homophone: esverar
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

esvarar (first-person singular present esvaro, first-person singular preterite esvarí, past participle esvarat)

1. (dialectal, intransitive, reflexive) to slip, to slide

   Synonym: relliscar

2. (dialectal, intransitive) to slip up (make a mistake)

• “esvarar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “esvarar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Vulgar Latin *exvarō, from Latin ex- +‎ vārus (“bent outwards”).

• IPA^(key): /esβaˈɾaɾ/

esvarar (first-person singular present esvaro, first-person singular preterite esvarei, past participle esvarado)

1. to slide (to move on a low friction surface)
2. to slip (to lose one’s traction on a slippery surface)
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, page 355:

     Mays esuarioulle a saeta, en tal gisa que Éytor nõ foy malchagado

     But the arrow slipped [from his hand] in such a way that Hector was not fatally wounded

• esborrexer
• (to slide): deslizar
• (to slip): escorregar, eslimar

• “esvarar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “esvarar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “esvarar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
• “esvarar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “esvarar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

esvarar (first-person singular present esvaro, first-person singular preterite esvaré, past participle esvarado)

1. Alternative form of esbarar

• “esvarar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014