deslizar

Unknown; possibly of Germanic origin, from Frankish *slīdan; compare English slide. Cognate with Galician and Spanish deslizar.

• Hyphenation: des‧li‧zar

deslizar (first-person singular present deslizo, first-person singular preterite deslizei, past participle deslizado)

1. to slip; to slide
2. (computing) to swipe (to interact with a touch screen)

• “deslizar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “deslizar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

From an onomatopoeic base *liz-.^[1] Or, possibly influenced by or of Germanic origin, from Frankish *slīdan; compare English slide. Cognate with Portuguese deslizar.

• IPA^(key): /desliˈθaɾ/ [d̪es.liˈθaɾ] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /desliˈsaɾ/ [d̪es.liˈsaɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: des‧li‧zar

deslizar (first-person singular present deslizo, first-person singular preterite deslicé, past participle deslizado)

1. to slide

   Synonyms: patinar, resbalar

2. to slip (to give discreetly)

   Deslízale el dinero al guarda. Me lo dará.

   Slip the money to the guard. He'll give it to me.

3. to swipe (e.g. on a screen or with a card)
4. (reflexive) to glide
5. (reflexive) to slip, to slither (to move stealthily or discreetly, to move with ease)

• “deslizar”, 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