suscitar

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [su.siˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [su.siˈtaɾ]

suscitar (first-person singular present suscito, first-person singular preterite suscití, past participle suscitat)

1. (transitive) to provoke, cause

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

Borrowed from Latin suscitāre.

• Hyphenation: sus‧ci‧tar

suscitar (first-person singular present suscito, first-person singular preterite suscitei, past participle suscitado)

1. (transitive) to provoke; to cause; to bring about

   Synonyms: provocar, causar

• sucitar (dated or nonstandard)

Borrowed from Latin suscitāre. Compare asustar.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /susθiˈtaɾ/ [sus.θiˈt̪aɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /susiˈtaɾ/ [su.siˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: sus‧ci‧tar

suscitar (first-person singular present suscito, first-person singular preterite suscité, past participle suscitado)

1. to provoke, to stir up, to give rise to

   suscitar la simpatía

   elicit sympathy

2. to raise, to give rise to, to elicit (e.g., a question, a concern, support)

   suscita dudas

   it raises doubts

   suscita la pregunta

   it raises the question

   suscité unas objecciones

   I raised some objections

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