yacer

Inherited from Old Spanish yazer, inherited from Latin iacēre, iaceō, from Proto-Italic *jakēō. Cognate with French gésir, Italian giacere, Portuguese jazer, Catalan jeure, Romanian zăcea. Compare English gist and joist.

• IPA^(key): /ʝaˈθeɾ/ [ɟ͡ʝaˈθeɾ] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ʝaˈseɾ/ [ɟ͡ʝaˈseɾ] (most of Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: ya‧cer

yacer (first-person singular present yazco or yazgo or yago, first-person singular preterite yací, past participle yacido)

1. to lie; to recline

   Synonyms: reposar, recostar

• “yacer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024