herir

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to wound, injure (to cause physical injury and pain)
  2. (transitive) to hurt, offend, wound (to cause emotional pain)

Frequency

C1
Hyphenated as
he‧rir
Pronounced as (IPA)
/eˈɾiɾ/
Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish ferir, from Latin ferīre, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to scrape, to cut”). Related to English interfere.

Cognate with English
English
interfere

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