decorticare

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Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin dēcorticāre.

Verb

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decorticàre (first-person singular present decòrtico, first-person singular past historic decorticài, past participle decorticàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to debark, to decorticate, to remove the bark from (a plant, a tree)
    Synonym: scortecciare
  2. (transitive) to hull (beans, flax or cotton seeds, etc.) industrially
  3. (transitive) to remove the rind from (a piece of meat)
  4. (transitive) to skin (a fur-bearing animal)
  5. (transitive) to strip the topsoil of (a large area of ground) (especially for pollution remediation purposes)

Conjugation

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Further reading

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  • decorticare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

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Latin

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Verb

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dēcorticāre

  1. inflection of dēcorticō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative

Romanian

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Etymology

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From decortica +‎ -re.

Noun

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decorticare f (plural decorticări)

  1. decortication

Declension

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative decorticare decorticarea decorticări decorticările
genitive-dative decorticări decorticării decorticări decorticărilor
vocative decorticare, decorticareo decorticărilor

Spanish

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Verb

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decorticare

  1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of decorticar