afeitar

• IPA^(key): /afei̯ˈtaɾ/ [a.fei̯ˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧fei‧tar

afeitar (first-person singular indicative present afeito, past participle afeitáu)

1. alternative form of afaitar

From Old Galician-Portuguese afeitar, from Latin affectare.

• IPA^(key): /afejˈtaɾ/ [a.fejˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: a‧fei‧tar

afeitar (first-person singular present afeito, first-person singular preterite afeitei, past participle afeitado)

1. (archaic) to primp; to adorn
   • 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria, Oviedo: Archivum, page 259:

     o pauõ mostra a vida dos rricos, que ẽnobreçẽ, et afeytam, et cõpoem suas deanteyras et leyxam descuberta moy torpemẽte sua postromaria

     the peacocks show the lifestyle of the rich people, who grace, and adorn, and set up their front sides and let their backsides clumsily uncovered

2. to shave

   Synonym: barbear

   • 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 713:

     Conta a estoria que, estando Lope d'Arenas hũu dia afeyt[ã]do sua barua...

     The story tells that, being Lope de Arenas one day shaving his beard...

3. to sharpen

• afeite

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “afeitar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “afeyt”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “afeitar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “afeitar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “afeitar”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “afeitar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• Hyphenation: a‧fei‧tar

From Latin affectāre. Doublet of afetar, afectar, and enfeitar.

afeitar (first-person singular present afeito, first-person singular preterite afeitei, past participle afeitado)

1. (archaic, pronominal) to become fond [with a ‘of someone’]
2. (archaic, transitive) to make presentable

Borrowed from Spanish afeitar.

afeitar (first-person singular present afeito, first-person singular preterite afeitei, past participle afeitado)

1. (South Brazil, pronominal) to shave (to remove one’s beard)

   Synonym: fazer a barba

• “afeitar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “afeitar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “afeitar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Aragonese afeitar or Leonese afeitar, from Latin affectāre. Doublet of ahechar (“clean wheat with a sieve”) (inherited) and the later learned borrowing afectar.

• IPA^(key): /afeiˈtaɾ/ [a.fei̯ˈt̪aɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧fei‧tar

afeitar (first-person singular present afeito, first-person singular preterite afeité, past participle afeitado)

1. (transitive or reflexive) to shave (to remove hair with a razor or clippers)

   Synonyms: rasurar, (especially head hair) rapar

2. (obsolete) to groom
   • 1728, Benito Jerónimo Feijoo, Teatro Crítico Universal, volume 2:

     le afeitassen y vistiessen como muger

     they groomed and dressed him like a woman

   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 204:

     Cuando el gato se afeita, es decir, cuando se lame la cara, es señal de que luego llegarán visitas.

     When the cat grooms itself, that is to say, when it licks its face, it's a sign that soon visitors will arrive.

• “afeitar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025