dizer

• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Hyphenation: di‧zer

dizer (first-person singular present digo, first-person singular preterite dixem or disse, past participle dito, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of dicir

• “dizer” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

dizer (Latin spelling)

1. Alternative form of dezir
   • 2013, Bouena Sarfatty Garfinkle, "Family Dynamics", in Renée Levine Melammed, An Ode to Salonika: The Ladino Verses of Bouena Sarfatty, p. 80:

     Kouando los Nahmias alevantan el vaso para dizer lehaim, / Eze de korason.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Inherited from Latin dīcere, from Proto-Italic *deikō, from Proto-Indo-European *déyḱti (“to show, point out”).

• IPA^(key): /diˈd͡zeɾ/
• Rhymes: -eɾ

dizer

1. to say, to tell
2. to speak
3. to communicate

• Galician: dicir, dizer (reintegrationist), decer
• Portuguese: dizer

• Universo Cantigas - "dizer"

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese dizer, from Latin dīcere, from Proto-Italic *deikō, from Proto-Indo-European *déyḱti (“to show, point out”). Compare Galician dicir.

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /diˈze(h)/
• (Rural Central Brazil) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiˈze(ɹ)/
• Hyphenation: di‧zer

• Audio (rustic Central Brazil):

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dizer (first-person singular present digo, first-person singular preterite disse, past participle dito) (transitive)

1. to say
   2. to speak; to pronounce; to utter; to say

      Abra/e a boca e diga/diz aaaaa.

      Open your mouth and say aaaaah.

      Ele disse “eu nunca fiz isto”.

      He said “I’ve never done this”

   4. to tell; to say (to communicate information to someone) [with (Portugal or formal) a or (Brazil) para ‘to someone’]
      • 2007, J. K. Rowling, Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e as Relíquias da Morte, Rocco, page 516:

        Não é bonito dizer isso a uma pessoa.

        It's not nice to say that to a person.

   6. to say (to indicate a given fact) [with que (+ clause) ‘that’]

      A placa diz que não podemos entrar.

      The sign says that we can’t go in.

3. to discern; to tell, to distinguish
   • 2000, J. K. Rowling, Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Prisioneiro de Azkaban, Rocco, page 240:

     Era difícil dizer se a professora os ouvira, pois seu rosto estava oculto pelas sombras.

     It was difficult to tell whether the teacher had heard them, because her face was hidden by the shadows.

4. (of a person) to mean

   Synonym: querer dizer

   Vamos à festa para comer... Digo, celebrar.

   We're going to the party to eat... I mean, to celebrate.

   “Ir para o céu” você diz... morrer?

   By “go to heaven” you mean... to die?

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:dizer.