sollozar

Spanish

Etymology

From sollozo, or from Vulgar Latin *suggluttiāre, from an alteration of singultare (with the prefix sub- and with influence from gluttīre), from Latin singultus. It is uncertain whether the verb or the noun is the base root in Vulgar Latin; it may be more likely that the verb is a derivative of the noun suggluttium (attested in some glosses), which itself may be derived from or related to sugglutiō, sugglutīre. Compare Portuguese soluçar, Romanian sughița, also Italian singhiozzare.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /soʝoˈθaɾ/ [so.ʝoˈθaɾ]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain) /soʝoˈθaɾ/ [so.ʝoˈθaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain) /soʎoˈθaɾ/ [so.ʎoˈθaɾ]

 

• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /soʝoˈsaɾ/ [so.ʝoˈsaɾ]

• IPA^(key): (most of Latin America) /soʝoˈsaɾ/ [so.ʝoˈsaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Andes Mountains, Philippines) /soʎoˈsaɾ/ [so.ʎoˈsaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /soʃoˈsaɾ/ [so.ʃoˈsaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /soʒoˈsaɾ/ [so.ʒoˈsaɾ]

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: so‧llo‧zar

Verb

sollozar (first-person singular present sollozo, first-person singular preterite sollocé, past participle sollozado)

1. (intransitive) to sob

Conjugation

    Conjugation of sollozar (c-z alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			sollozar
gerund			sollozando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		sollozado		sollozada
		plural		sollozados		sollozadas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	sollozo	sollozastú sollozásvos	solloza	sollozamos	sollozáis	sollozan
	imperfect	sollozaba	sollozabas	sollozaba	sollozábamos	sollozabais	sollozaban
	preterite	sollocé	sollozaste	sollozó	sollozamos	sollozasteis	sollozaron
	future	sollozaré	sollozarás	sollozará	sollozaremos	sollozaréis	sollozarán
	conditional	sollozaría	sollozarías	sollozaría	sollozaríamos	sollozaríais	sollozarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	solloce	sollocestú sollocésvos2	solloce	sollocemos	sollocéis	sollocen
	imperfect (ra)	sollozara	sollozaras	sollozara	sollozáramos	sollozarais	sollozaran
	imperfect (se)	sollozase	sollozases	sollozase	sollozásemos	sollozaseis	sollozasen
	future1	sollozare	sollozares	sollozare	sollozáremos	sollozareis	sollozaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		sollozatú sollozávos	solloce	sollocemos	sollozad	sollocen
	negative		no solloces	no solloce	no sollocemos	no sollocéis	no sollocen

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

Derived terms

• sollozante

 

Related terms

• sollozo

 

Further reading

• “sollozar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28