despitar

Spanish

Etymology

From des- +‎ pitar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /despiˈtaɾ/ [d̪es.piˈt̪aɾ]
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Syllabification: des‧pi‧tar

Verb

despitar (first-person singular present despito, first-person singular preterite despité, past participle despitado)

  1. (sports, neologism) to overturn / rectify a referee or umpire on a decision he/she had made
    Antonym: pitar
    El arbitró despitó el penalti después de verlo en el VARThe referee overturned the penalty after seeing it on VAR

Conjugation

Further reading

  • despitar”, in Tesoro de los diccionarios históricos de la lengua española [Thesaurus of the Historical Dictionaries of the Spanish Language], Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], launched 2021