# obviar
## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin obviāre.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ob.viˈa(ʁ)/ [ob.vɪˈa(h)], (faster pronunciation) /obˈvja(ʁ)/ [obˈvja(h)], /o.bi.viˈa(ʁ)/ [o.bi.vɪˈa(h)], (faster pronunciation) /o.biˈvja(ʁ)/ [o.biˈvja(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ob.viˈa(ʁ)/ [ob.vɪˈa(h)], (faster pronunciation) /obˈvja(ʁ)/ [obˈvja(h)], /o.bi.viˈa(ʁ)/ [o.bi.vɪˈa(h)], (faster pronunciation) /o.biˈvja(ʁ)/ [o.biˈvja(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ob.viˈa(ɾ)/ [ob.vɪˈa(ɾ)], (faster pronunciation) /obˈvja(ɾ)/, /o.bi.viˈa(ɾ)/ [o.bi.vɪˈa(ɾ)], (faster pronunciation) /o.biˈvja(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ob.viˈa(ʁ)/ [ob.vɪˈa(χ)], (faster pronunciation) /obˈvja(ʁ)/ [obˈvja(χ)], /o.bi.viˈa(ʁ)/ [o.bi.vɪˈa(χ)], (faster pronunciation) /o.biˈvja(ʁ)/ [o.biˈvja(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ob.viˈa(ɻ)/ [ob.vɪˈa(ɻ)], (faster pronunciation) /obˈvja(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɔˈbvjaɾ/ [ɔˈβvjaɾ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɔˈbvjaɾ/ [ɔˈβvjaɾ]
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ɔˈbjaɾ/ [ɔˈβjaɾ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ɔˈbvja.ɾi/ [ɔˈβvja.ɾi]

### Verb

obviar (first-person singular present obvio, first-person singular preterite obviei, past participle obviado)
* (transitive) to obviate (to avoid a future problem)

#### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese.

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin obviāre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /oˈbjaɾ/ [oˈβ̞jaɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: ob‧viar

### Verb

obviar (first-person singular present obvio, first-person singular preterite obvié, past participle obviado)
* to avoid; to get round; to get out of
    Synonyms: eludir, evitar
    obviar su mirada ― dodge his gaze
* to obviate
* to ignore; to flout
    obviar la norma ― to ignore the rule
    obviar la regla ― to ignore the rule
    obviar su frontera ― to ignore the boundary
    obviar sus crímenes ― to ignore their crimes
** 2017 April 2, “Las dictaduras según Borges”, in El Nacional‎:Se ha instalado en el proceder de radicales puristas y escrupulosos que, señalando yerros de la MUD y obviando sus aciertos, promueven frentes y movimientos de signo negativo para restar y dividir, en sintonía con lo que buscan los hegemones, a fin de que sus partidarios sigan siendo «botones que balbucean imperativos» y, gritando sus «vivas y mueras prefijados», continúen, disciplinadamente, «usurpando el lugar de la lucidez».It has settled in the behavior of purist and scrupulous radicals who, pointing out the MUD's mistakes and ignoring its successes, promote negative fronts and movements to subtract and divide, in line with what the hegemons seek, so that their supporters continue to be «buttons that babble imperatives» and, shouting their «prefixed live and dies», continue, disciplined, «usurping the place of lucidity».

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

#### Related terms

* obvio

### Further reading

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