esconder.
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Meaning & usage
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Los pájaros se escondieron entre las hojas y comenzaron a cantar.
El gato ha estado escondiéndose debajo del sofá desde que se levantaron los chicos.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Italic *ap Latin abder. Latin abs- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁tder. Proto-Italic *-ðō Latin -dō Latin condō Latin abscondō Old Spanish asconder ▲ Old Spanish es-influ. Old Spanish esconder Spanish esconder Inherited from Old Spanish esconder, from an original asconder (with a replacement of the prefix with es-), from Latin abscondere. It formerly showed the expected diphthongization of stressed short Latin /o/ in rhizotonic conjugations (see older escuendo), but this was later levelled out by analogy with arrhizotonic conjugations. Doublet of absconder and cognate with English abscond.
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