coltellejar
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Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Central) [kul.tə.ʎəˈʒa]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [kol.tə.ʎəˈʒa]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [kol.te.ʎeˈd͡ʒaɾ]
Verb
[edit]coltellejar (first-person singular present coltellejo, first-person singular preterite coltellegí, past participle coltellejat)
- (transitive, frequentative) to knife (stab or slash with a knife)
- 1929, Llorenç Riber i Campins, Any cristià, I:
- El poble, desafiat i provocat per tanta audàcia, s'emparà del palau i coltellejà el grotesc emperador Eugeni.
- The people, challenged and provoked by such audacity, seized the palace and stabbed to death the grotesque Emperor Eugenius.
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of coltellejar (first conjugation, j-g alternation)
Further reading
[edit]- “coltellejar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.