aditar

• ditar

Perhaps inherited from Latin dictāre, prefixed with a-. Then, doublet of ditar, a later borrowing. Alternatively, from Latin additō.

• IPA^(key): [aðiˈtaɾ]

aditar (first-person singular present adito, first-person singular preterite aditei, past participle aditado)

1. (intransitive) to be fitting, suitable, useful or enjoyable

   Synonyms: acaer, sentar

   • 1895, Antonio López Ferreiro, A tecedeira de Bonaval, page 334:

     É indudabre que a vida do campo é a máis aditada aa naturaleza do home; pois que na vida das cidades, como súa mercé ben sabe, hai moito de artificioso e estudiado, e imposto; o cal non pode menos de violentar os nosos naturales instintos e as nosas tendenzas.

     «There's no doubt that life in the country is the most suitable for the human nature; because in urban life, as your grace well know, there is much of artificial and studied, and imposed; which just can but force our natural instincts and our tendencies.»

2. (transitive) to command; to dictate

   Synonym: dictar

   • 1861, Xoán Manuel Pintos, A Galicia:

     Anque España xa toda está rendida, e casi tod'as prazas xa tomadas, e a libertá perdida na Cruña vai a dar as boqueadas; non pode consentir, o honor llo adita, que o máis fero inimigo sin ver sangre profane a gran ciudá de María Pita.

     The whole of Spain has surrendered, almost every stronghold taken, the lost freedom is going to take her last breath in A Coruña; but he cannot consent, honour dictates it, that the fiercest enemy profanes the great city of María Pita without the sight of blood

3. to adapt (adjust for a given purpose)

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “aditar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ditar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “aditar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “aditar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “aditar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• Hyphenation: a‧di‧tar

aditar (first-person singular present adito, first-person singular preterite aditei, past participle aditado)

1. to add (make additions)
2. to enter (make an entrance)