demitir
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Portuguese
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin dēmittere (“to bring down”), from de (“from, away from, down from”) + mittō (“send; emit; throw, cast”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to exchange, remove”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: de‧mi‧tir
Verb
[edit]demitir (first-person singular present demito, first-person singular preterite demiti, past participle demitido)
- to fire (terminate the employment of)
- to dismiss, displace
- (reflexive) to resign (quit a job or position)
- Synonym: renunciar
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of demitir (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
Synonyms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “demitir”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “demitir”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026