esquiver

Significado

1. to dodge (a blow), duck
2. to evade, elude
3. to sidestep, to strafe
4. to slip away

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ɛs.ki.ve/

Etimologia

Inherited from Middle French esquiver (“to escape”), from Spanish esquivar (“to avoid, reject, elude”), itself from Old French eschiver from Proto-West Germanic *skiuhan, if not formed from esquivo.