banderillear

Spanish

Etymology

From banderilla +‎ -ear.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bandeɾiʝeˈaɾ/ [bãn̪.d̪e.ɾi.ʝeˈaɾ]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /bandeɾiʝeˈaɾ/ [bãn̪.d̪e.ɾi.ʝeˈaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /bandeɾiʎeˈaɾ/ [bãn̪.d̪e.ɾi.ʎeˈaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /bandeɾiʃeˈaɾ/ [bãn̪.d̪e.ɾi.ʃeˈaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /bandeɾiʒeˈaɾ/ [bãn̪.d̪e.ɾi.ʒeˈaɾ]

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ban‧de‧ri‧lle‧ar

Verb

banderillear (first-person singular present banderilleo, first-person singular preterite banderilleé, past participle banderilleado)

1. (bullfighting, transitive) to stick banderillas in the bull
   • 2015 October 14, “La afición de Zaragoza se entrega a un agradecido, efectista y desigual Padilla”, in El País‎^[1]:

     El Fandi brilló solo en los primeros tercios de la lidia de los dos de su lote, sobre todo al banderillear con espectacularidad a su primero, que sacó genio defensivo hasta que decidió echarse por su cuenta sobre la arena.

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Conjugation

    Conjugation of banderillear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			banderillear
gerund			banderilleando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		banderilleado		banderilleada
		plural		banderilleados		banderilleadas
		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	banderilleo	banderilleastú banderilleásvos	banderillea	banderilleamos	banderilleáis	banderillean
	imperfect	banderilleaba	banderilleabas	banderilleaba	banderilleábamos	banderilleabais	banderilleaban
	preterite	banderilleé	banderilleaste	banderilleó	banderilleamos	banderilleasteis	banderillearon
	future	banderillearé	banderillearás	banderilleará	banderillearemos	banderillearéis	banderillearán
	conditional	banderillearía	banderillearías	banderillearía	banderillearíamos	banderillearíais	banderillearían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	banderillee	banderilleestú banderilleésvos2	banderillee	banderilleemos	banderilleéis	banderilleen
	imperfect (ra)	banderilleara	banderillearas	banderilleara	banderilleáramos	banderillearais	banderillearan
	imperfect (se)	banderillease	banderilleases	banderillease	banderilleásemos	banderilleaseis	banderilleasen
	future1	banderilleare	banderilleares	banderilleare	banderilleáremos	banderilleareis	banderillearen
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		banderilleatú banderilleávos	banderillee	banderilleemos	banderillead	banderilleen
	negative		no banderillees	no banderillee	no banderilleemos	no banderilleéis	no banderilleen

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

Further reading

• “banderillear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28