desviar

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin dēviāre.

Verb

desviar (first-person singular present desvio, first-person singular preterite desvií, past participle desviat)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to divert, to deviate

Derived terms

• desviació

Further reading

• “desviar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “desviar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “desviar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “desviar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese desviar, from Latin dēviāre, present active infinitive of dēviō

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɨʒ.ˈvjaɾ/
• Hyphenation: des‧vi‧ar

Verb

1. to divert
2. to deviate
3. to deflect
4. to swerve
5. to detour

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin dēviāre, with replacement of Latin dē- by Spanish des-. Cognate with English deviate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /desˈbjaɾ/ [d̪ezˈβ̞jaɾ]

Verb

1. to divert, to distract, to shift, to sidetrack
2. to deflect
3. (figuratively) to derail (e.g. a movement, a process)
4. to reroute, to redirect
5. to siphon, to siphon off (e.g. money, funds)
6. to forward (a phone call)
7. to avert (e.g. one's eyes or gaze)
8. to change (e.g. the subject, the course, the conversation)
9. (figuratively) to shunt (i.e. move aside)
10. (reflexive) to deviate, to detour, to turn aside, to depart, to swerve
11. (reflexive) to turn off, to veer (e.g. to take an exit)
12. (reflexive) to branch off, to fork off (e.g. a road or highway)
13. (reflexive) to swerve, to go off course
14. (reflexive) to get sidetracked

Derived terms

• desviar la atención (“to divert attention”)

Further reading

• “desviar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014