rejeitar

Meaning

1. to reject (to refuse to accept)
2. to disapprove (to refuse to approve)
3. to despise (to regard with contempt or scorn)
4. to reject a transplanted organ
5. (transitive) to vomit something

Hyphenated as

re‧jei‧tar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʁe.ʒejˈta(ʁ)/

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *reiectāre, from Latin reiectus (“thrown back; rejected”), perfect passive participle of reiciō (“to throw back; to repel; to reject”), from re- (“re-”) + iaciō (“to throw; to hurl”). Cognate with Galician rexeitar.