tiritar

Portuguese

Etymology

Of imitative origin

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃi.ɾiˈta(ʁ)/ [t͡ʃi.ɾiˈta(h)]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃi.ɾiˈta(ʁ)/ [t͡ʃi.ɾiˈta(h)]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃi.ɾiˈta(ɾ)/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃi.ɾiˈta(ʁ)/ [t͡ʃi.ɾiˈta(χ)]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃi.ɾiˈta(ɻ)/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ti.ɾiˈtaɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ti.ɾiˈtaɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ti.ɾiˈta.ɾi/

• Hyphenation: ti‧ri‧tar

Verb

tiritar (first-person singular present tirito, first-person singular preterite tiritei, past participle tiritado)

1. to shiver (to shake when cold or frightened)

   Synonym: tremer

Conjugation

    Conjugation of tiritar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	tiritar
Personal	tiritar	tiritares	tiritar	tiritarmos	tiritardes	tiritarem
Gerund
	tiritando
Past participle
Masculine	tiritado			tiritados
Feminine	tiritada			tiritadas
Indicative
Present	tirito	tiritas	tirita	tiritamos	tiritais	tiritam
Imperfect	tiritava	tiritavas	tiritava	tiritávamos	tiritáveis	tiritavam
Preterite	tiritei	tiritaste	tiritou	tiritamos1, tiritámos2	tiritastes	tiritaram
Pluperfect	tiritara	tiritaras	tiritara	tiritáramos	tiritáreis	tiritaram
Future	tiritarei	tiritarás	tiritará	tiritaremos	tiritareis	tiritarão
Conditional	tiritaria	tiritarias	tiritaria	tiritaríamos	tiritaríeis	tiritariam
Subjunctive
Present	tirite	tirites	tirite	tiritemos	tiriteis	tiritem
Imperfect	tiritasse	tiritasses	tiritasse	tiritássemos	tiritásseis	tiritassem
Future	tiritar	tiritares	tiritar	tiritarmos	tiritardes	tiritarem
Imperative
Affirmative		tirita	tirite	tiritemos	tiritai	tiritem
Negative (não)		não tirites	não tirite	não tiritemos	não tiriteis	não tiritem

¹Brazilian Portuguese.
²European Portuguese.

Spanish

Etymology

Onomatopoeic. Compare Maltese terter, Turkish titremek and Proto-Indo-European *trem-. Cognate with Portuguese tiritar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiɾiˈtaɾ/ [t̪i.ɾiˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ti‧ri‧tar

Verb

tiritar (first-person singular present tirito, first-person singular preterite tirité, past participle tiritado)

1. to shiver

   Synonym: taquitear

   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 65:

     El Guirivilo es un animal que tiene el cuerpo parecido al del perro y la cola muy larga. Vive en los ríos, y cuando sale del agua, lo que hace pocas veces, tirita como si estuviera muriéndose de frío.

     The Guirivilo is an animal that has a body like that of a dog and a very long tail. It lives in rivers, and when it leaves the water, as it occasionally does, it shivers as if it were dying of cold.

Conjugation

    Conjugation of tiritar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			tiritar
gerund			tiritando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		tiritado		tiritada
		plural		tiritados		tiritadas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	tirito	tiritastú tiritásvos	tirita	tiritamos	tiritáis	tiritan
	imperfect	tiritaba	tiritabas	tiritaba	tiritábamos	tiritabais	tiritaban
	preterite	tirité	tiritaste	tiritó	tiritamos	tiritasteis	tiritaron
	future	tiritaré	tiritarás	tiritará	tiritaremos	tiritaréis	tiritarán
	conditional	tiritaría	tiritarías	tiritaría	tiritaríamos	tiritaríais	tiritarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	tirite	tiritestú tiritésvos2	tirite	tiritemos	tiritéis	tiriten
	imperfect (ra)	tiritara	tiritaras	tiritara	tiritáramos	tiritarais	tiritaran
	imperfect (se)	tiritase	tiritases	tiritase	tiritásemos	tiritaseis	tiritasen
	future1	tiritare	tiritares	tiritare	tiritáremos	tiritareis	tiritaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		tiritatú tiritávos	tirite	tiritemos	tiritad	tiriten
	negative		no tirites	no tirite	no tiritemos	no tiritéis	no tiriten

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

    Selected combined forms of tiritar

These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
with infinitive tiritar
	dative	tiritarme	tiritarte	tiritarle, tiritarse	tiritarnos	tiritaros	tiritarles, tiritarse
	accusative	tiritarme	tiritarte	tiritarlo, tiritarla, tiritarse	tiritarnos	tiritaros	tiritarlos, tiritarlas, tiritarse
with gerund tiritando
	dative	tiritándome	tiritándote	tiritándole, tiritándose	tiritándonos	tiritándoos	tiritándoles, tiritándose
	accusative	tiritándome	tiritándote	tiritándolo, tiritándola, tiritándose	tiritándonos	tiritándoos	tiritándolos, tiritándolas, tiritándose
with informal second-person singular tú imperative tirita
	dative	tirítame	tirítate	tirítale	tirítanos	not used	tirítales
	accusative	tirítame	tirítate	tirítalo, tirítala	tirítanos	not used	tirítalos, tirítalas
with informal second-person singular vos imperative tiritá
	dative	tiritame	tiritate	tiritale	tiritanos	not used	tiritales
	accusative	tiritame	tiritate	tiritalo, tiritala	tiritanos	not used	tiritalos, tiritalas
with formal second-person singular imperative tirite
	dative	tiríteme	not used	tirítele, tirítese	tirítenos	not used	tiríteles
	accusative	tiríteme	not used	tirítelo, tirítela, tirítese	tirítenos	not used	tirítelos, tirítelas
with first-person plural imperative tiritemos
	dative	not used	tiritémoste	tiritémosle	tiritémonos	tiritémoos	tiritémosles
	accusative	not used	tiritémoste	tiritémoslo, tiritémosla	tiritémonos	tiritémoos	tiritémoslos, tiritémoslas
with informal second-person plural imperative tiritad
	dative	tiritadme	not used	tiritadle	tiritadnos	tiritaos	tiritadles
	accusative	tiritadme	not used	tiritadlo, tiritadla	tiritadnos	tiritaos	tiritadlos, tiritadlas
with formal second-person plural imperative tiriten
	dative	tirítenme	not used	tirítenle	tirítennos	not used	tirítenles, tirítense
	accusative	tirítenme	not used	tirítenlo, tirítenla	tirítennos	not used	tirítenlos, tirítenlas, tirítense

See also

• escalofrío
• temblar

Further reading

• “tiritar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28