desmaiar

Significat (anglès)

1. (intransitive) to faint (to lose consciousness)
2. (figuratively,intransitive) to dishearten
3. (figuratively,intransitive) to fall asleep suddenly, usually by excessive tiredness
4. (transitive) to cause a person to faint, often by drugging them and with criminal intentions

Amb guionet com

des‧mai‧ar

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/dez.majˈa(ʁ)/

Etimologia (anglès)

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