suscitar

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [su.siˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [su.siˈtaɾ]

suscitar (first-person singular present suscito, first-person singular preterite suscití, past participle suscitat)

1. (transitive) to provoke, cause

• “suscitar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “suscitar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “suscitar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “suscitar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Latin suscitāre.

• Hyphenation: sus‧ci‧tar

suscitar (first-person singular present suscito, first-person singular preterite suscitei, past participle suscitado)

1. (transitive) to provoke; to cause; to bring about

   Synonyms: provocar, causar

• sucitar (dated or nonstandard)

Borrowed from Latin suscitāre. Compare asustar.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /susθiˈtaɾ/ [sus.θiˈt̪aɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /susiˈtaɾ/ [su.siˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: sus‧ci‧tar

suscitar (first-person singular present suscito, first-person singular preterite suscité, past participle suscitado)

1. to provoke, to stir up, to give rise to
2. to raise, to give rise to, to elicit (e.g., a question, a concern, support)

   suscita dudas

   it raises doubts

   suscita la pregunta

   it raises the question

   suscité unas objecciones

   I raised some objections

• “suscitar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014