Etymology

From Old Galician-PortugueseCategory:Galician terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese#ESCUSARCategory:Galician terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese#ESCUSAR escusar, from LatinCategory:Galician terms inherited from Latin#ESCUSARCategory:Galician terms derived from Latin#ESCUSAR excūsāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eskuˈsaɾ/Category:Galician terms with IPA pronunciation#ESCUSAR

Verb

escusar (first-person singular present escuso, first-person singular preterite escusei, past participle escusado)Category:Galician lemmas#ESCUSARCategory:Galician verbs#ESCUSARCategory:Galician verbs ending in -ar#ESCUSARCategory:Galician entries with incorrect language header#ESCUSARCategory:Pages with entries#ESCUSARCategory:Pages with 3 entries#ESCUSAR

1. (transitiveCategory:Galician transitive verbs#ESCUSAR) to excuse

   Synonyms: desculpar, dispensar

2. (transitiveCategory:Galician transitive verbs#ESCUSAR) to not need something, to avoid

   Quen ao sementar é mesquiño, pr'a seitura escusa fouciño (proverb)

   The one who is miserable sowing, won't need a sickle for the harvest.

   Category:Galician terms with usage examples#ESCUSAR

   O que ben almorza escusa o xantar (proverb)

   The one who eats a good breakfast does not need dinner.

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   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 633:

     o que á de seer nõ se pode escusar, quer uena a torto, quer a dereyto

     You can't avoid the future, now if it comes crooked, now if it's right

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   • 1371, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Fueros municipales de Santiago y de su tierra, Madrid: Ediciones Castilla, page 434:

     Et demays foron buscar todos los outros coengos [...] et trouxeronnos por força et contra suas voontades et enssarraronnos con os outros enno dito thesouro [...] Et esteueron aly por espacio de noue dias [...] Et os uellos et fraquos que non podian sayr, ouueron de fazer dentro enno dito thesouro aquello que he nescessario et se non pode escussar.

     they went to fetch every other canon [...] and they brought them forcibly and against their wills and they locked them inside the treasury room [...] And they were there for nine days [...] And the elders and the weak ones, that couldn't get out, were forced to do inside the treasure that which is necessary and can't be avoided.

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3. (intransitiveCategory:Galician intransitive verbs#ESCUSAR) to be unnecessary [with de ‘to do something’]
   • 1813, anonymous author, Conversa no adro da igrexa:

     escusades de xurá-lo que volo creo mui ben

     You don't need to swear it, because I really believe you

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References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “escusar”, 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), “escusar”, 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), “escusar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “escusar”, 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), “escusar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “escusar”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “escusar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology

From Old Galician-PortugueseCategory:Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese#ESCUSARCategory:Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese#ESCUSAR escusar, from LatinCategory:Portuguese terms inherited from Latin#ESCUSARCategory:Portuguese terms derived from Latin#ESCUSAR excūsāre.

Pronunciation

Verb

escusar (first-person singular present escuso, first-person singular preterite escusei, past participle escusado)Category:Portuguese lemmas#ESCUSARCategory:Portuguese verbs#ESCUSARCategory:Portuguese verbs ending in -ar#ESCUSARCategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#ESCUSARCategory:Pages with entries#ESCUSARCategory:Pages with 3 entries#ESCUSAR

1. (transitiveCategory:Portuguese transitive verbs#ESCUSAR) to forgive; to pardon; to excuse

   Synonyms: desculpar, perdoar

2. (pronominal) to apologize [with de or por ‘for something’]

   Synonyms: pedir desculpas (por), desculpar-se

3. (transitiveCategory:Portuguese transitive verbs#ESCUSAR) to excuse (to allow to leave)

   Synonyms: dispensar, liberar

4. (transitiveCategory:Portuguese transitive verbs#ESCUSAR) to excuse; to justify (to be an acceptable reason for)

   Synonyms: justificar, ser desculpa para

Further reading

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

Etymology

Inherited from Old SpanishCategory:Spanish terms inherited from Old Spanish#ESCUSARCategory:Spanish terms derived from Old Spanish#ESCUSAR escusar, from LatinCategory:Spanish terms inherited from Latin#ESCUSARCategory:Spanish terms derived from Latin#ESCUSAR excūsāre. Cf. the modified form excusarCategory:Spanish doublets#ESCUSAR. The meaning in this word was influenced by escuso (“hidden”), the old past participle of esconder (“to hide”), corresponding to Latin abscōnsus; cf. also escusa.^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eskuˈsaɾ/ [es.kuˈsaɾ]Category:Spanish 3-syllable words#ESCUSARCategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#ESCUSAR
• Rhymes: -aɾCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/aɾ#ESCUSARCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/aɾ/3 syllables#ESCUSAR
• Syllabification: es‧cu‧sar

Verb

escusar (first-person singular present escuso, first-person singular preterite escusé, past participle escusado)Category:Spanish lemmas#ESCUSARCategory:Spanish verbs#ESCUSARCategory:Spanish verbs ending in -ar#ESCUSARCategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#ESCUSARCategory:Pages with entries#ESCUSARCategory:Pages with 3 entries#ESCUSAR

1. (obsoleteCategory:Spanish terms with obsolete senses#ESCUSAR) to hide

References

Further reading

• “escusar”, 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