asconder

An archaic/medieval form of esconder ("to hide") found in Old Spanish texts — most famously the Cantar de Mio Cid — and now completely obsolete outside historical or philological contexts. No modern speaker uses it.

• En el Cantar de Mio Cid se lee: "ascóndense de mio Çid ca no l'osan dezir nada". — In the Cantar de Mio Cid one reads: "they hide from my Cid, for they dare not say anything to him."
• Los clérigos medievales usaban asconder donde hoy diríamos esconder. — Medieval clerics used asconder where we'd say esconder today.
• El manuscrito antiguo emplea asconder en varios pasajes del destierro. — The old manuscript uses asconder in several passages about the exile.

Using asconder in modern writing thinking it's a regional or elevated synonym of esconder — it isn't in active use anywhere; it's a historical form that belongs in medieval texts and philology classes, not contemporary Spanish.

• book Cantar de Mio Cid — The medieval Castilian epic poem uses the verb form ascóndense ("they hide themselves") in its account of the Cid's exile from Burgos — one of the clearest surviving examples of this now-obsolete verb in a major work of Spanish literature.