ascondir

A rarer alternate spelling/conjugation-class variant of the archaic asconder (itself the medieval ancestor of modern esconder), found sporadically in Old Spanish manuscripts. Like asconder, it has no place in modern Spanish and is of interest only to historical linguists and readers of medieval texts.

• Algunos manuscritos medievales alternan asconder y ascondir para el mismo verbo. — Some medieval manuscripts alternate between asconder and ascondir for the same verb.
• El escriba prefería ascondir en esta copia del texto. — The scribe preferred ascondir in this copy of the text.
• Hoy ningún hablante usaría ascondir en una frase cotidiana. — No speaker today would use ascondir in an everyday sentence.

Treating ascondir as a distinct, currently-used verb from asconder — both are obsolete variants of the same Old Spanish word for "to hide," and neither survives in modern Spanish, which uses esconder exclusively.