Etymology

From LatinCategory:Asturian terms inherited from Latin#ESCONDERCategory:Asturian terms derived from Latin#ESCONDER abscondere.

Verb

esconderCategory:Asturian lemmas#ESCONDERCategory:Asturian verbs#ESCONDERCategory:Asturian entries with incorrect language header#ESCONDERCategory:Pages with entries#ESCONDERCategory:Pages with 4 entries#ESCONDER

1. to hide

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-PortugueseCategory:Galician terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese#ESCONDERCategory:Galician terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese#ESCONDER asconder (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from LatinCategory:Galician terms inherited from Latin#ESCONDERCategory:Galician terms derived from Latin#ESCONDER abscondere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eskonˈdeɾ/ [es̺.kon̪ˈd̪eɾ]Category:Galician terms with IPA pronunciation#ESCONDER
• Rhymes: -eɾCategory:Rhymes:Galician/eɾ#ESCONDERCategory:Rhymes:Galician/eɾ/3 syllables#ESCONDER
• Hyphenation: es‧con‧der

Verb

esconder (first-person singular present escondo, first-person singular preterite escondín, past participle escondido)Category:Galician lemmas#ESCONDERCategory:Galician verbs#ESCONDERCategory:Galician verbs ending in -er#ESCONDERCategory:Galician entries with incorrect language header#ESCONDERCategory:Pages with entries#ESCONDERCategory:Pages with 4 entries#ESCONDER
esconder (first-person singular present escondo, first-person singular preterite escondim or escondi, past participle escondido, reintegrationist norm)Category:Galician lemmas#ESCONDERCategory:Galician verbs#ESCONDERCategory:Galician verbs ending in -er#ESCONDERCategory:Galician entries with incorrect language header#ESCONDERCategory:Pages with entries#ESCONDERCategory:Pages with 4 entries#ESCONDER

1. to hide; to conceal

   Synonyms: agochar, ocultar

   • 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 59:

     Et desque chegares a España, yredes por hũa çidade que he chamada Burgos, et entrãdo en ela tãgerse an todo los sinos sen aiuda de omẽ; et vos cõ medo leixaredes a rrua por que entrardes et esconderuos edes en casa de hũu home; et y seera moy grã cõtenda ontre ti et tous cõpaneiros sobre la cabeça, porque o chantres querraa leuar para Braagã, et tu para a igleia de Santiago.

     And when you arrive to Spain, you'll pass through a city called Burgos, and entering in it all the bells will toll without the help of man; and you, with fear, will left the street by which you entered, and you'll hide in the house of a man; and there will be a big argument in between you and your companions about the head, because the chanter will want to take it to Braga, and you to the church of Santiago

     Category:Galician terms with quotations#ESCONDER

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “esconder”, 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), “esconder”, 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), “esconder”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “esconder”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “esconder”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “esconder”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “esconder”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-PortugueseCategory:Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese#ESCONDERCategory:Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese#ESCONDER asconder, from LatinCategory:Portuguese terms inherited from Latin#ESCONDERCategory:Portuguese terms derived from Latin#ESCONDER abscondere. Doublet of absconderCategory:Portuguese doublets#ESCONDER, a borrowing.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

  (file)

  Category:Portuguese terms with audio pronunciation#ESCONDER
• Hyphenation: es‧con‧der

Verb

esconder (first-person singular present escondo, first-person singular preterite escondi, past participle escondido)Category:Portuguese lemmas#ESCONDERCategory:Portuguese verbs#ESCONDERCategory:Portuguese verbs ending in -er#ESCONDERCategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#ESCONDERCategory:Pages with entries#ESCONDERCategory:Pages with 4 entries#ESCONDER

1. (transitiveCategory:Portuguese transitive verbs#ESCONDER) to hide

Further reading

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

Alternative forms

• absconder (Early Modern Spanish, obsolete)
• asconder (regional, chiefly Burgos; obsolete)

Etymology

Inherited from Old SpanishCategory:Spanish terms inherited from Old Spanish#ESCONDERCategory:Spanish terms derived from Old Spanish#ESCONDER esconder, from an original asconder (with a replacement of the prefix with es-), from LatinCategory:Spanish terms inherited from Latin#ESCONDERCategory:Spanish terms derived from Latin#ESCONDER abscondere. It formerly showed the expected diphthongization of stressed short Latin /o/ in rhizotonic conjugations (see older escuendo), but this was later levelled out by analogy with arrhizotonic conjugations.

Doublet of absconderCategory:Spanish doublets#ESCONDER and cognate with English abscond.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eskonˈdeɾ/ [es.kõn̪ˈd̪eɾ]Category:Spanish 3-syllable words#ESCONDERCategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#ESCONDER

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

  Category:Spanish terms with audio pronunciation#ESCONDER
• Rhymes: -eɾCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/eɾ#ESCONDERCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/eɾ/3 syllables#ESCONDER
• Syllabification: es‧con‧der

Verb

esconder (first-person singular present escondo, first-person singular preterite escondí, past participle escondido)Category:Spanish lemmas#ESCONDERCategory:Spanish verbs#ESCONDERCategory:Spanish verbs ending in -er#ESCONDERCategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#ESCONDERCategory:Pages with entries#ESCONDERCategory:Pages with 4 entries#ESCONDER

1. (transitiveCategory:Spanish transitive verbs#ESCONDER, reflexiveCategory:Spanish reflexive verbs#ESCONDER) to hide

   Synonym: ocultar

   Los pájaros se escondieron entre las hojas y comenzaron a cantar.

   The birds hid among the leaves and started to sing.

   Category:Spanish terms with usage examples#ESCONDER

   El gato ha estado escondiéndose debajo del sofá desde que se levantaron los chicos.

   The cat has been hiding under the couch since the kids woke up.

   Category:Spanish terms with usage examples#ESCONDER

Further reading

• “esconder”, 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