oblidar

Inherited from Old Catalan oblidar, from Vulgar Latin *oblītāre, a frequentative based on Latin oblīvīscor (via its past participle oblītus). Compare Occitan oblidar.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [u.βliˈða]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [o.bliˈða]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [o.bliˈðaɾ]

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• Homophone: oblidà
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

oblidar (first-person singular present oblido, first-person singular preterite oblidí, past participle oblidat)

1. (transitive, takes a reflexive pronoun) to forget

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

From Catalan. Compare Spanish olvidar, French oublier.

oblidar

1. to forget

oblīdar

1. first-person singular future passive indicative of oblīdō

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *oblītāre, a frequentative based on Latin oblīvīscor (via its past participle oblītus). Compare Old French oblier.

oblidar

1. to forget

• Occitan: doblidar

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*oblitāre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 7: N–Pas, page 271