humillar

Former Old Galician and Old Portuguese omillar (Cantigas de Santa Maria, 13th century); from Late Latin humiliāre, present active infinitive of humiliō, from humus (“ground, soil”). Compare Portuguese humilhar.

• IPA^(key): /umiˈʎaɾ/

humillar (first-person singular present humillo, first-person singular preterite humillei, past participle humillado)

1. (transitive) to humiliate

   Synonym: vexar

2. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to humble, to abase

   Synonym: abaixar

3. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to bow, to lower, to salute
   • 1295, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 642:

     Et, quando forõ ante dona Xemena, o mouro omillouse a ela et a suas fillas, et quiso beyiar as mãos a dona Xemena; mays ela nõ llas quiso dar.

     And when they were before lady Xemena, the Moor man bowed before her and her daughters, and he wanted to kiss lady Xemena,s hands, but she didn't allowed him to

   Synonym: abaixar

4. first- and third-person singular future subjunctive of humillar
5. first- and third-person singular personal infinitive of humillar

• humillante
• milladoiro

• “humillar” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

• “omillar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “omill” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “humillar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “humillar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Altered from Old Spanish homillar, from Latin humiliāre, present active infinitive of humiliō.

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /umiˈʎaɾ/
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /umiˈɟ͡ʝaɾ/, [umiˈʝaɾ]

humillar (first-person singular present humillo, first-person singular preterite humillé, past participle humillado)

1. to humiliate

• humillación
• humillante
• humilde

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