desportillar
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /despoɾtiˈʝaɾ/ [d̪es.poɾ.t̪iˈʝaɾ]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Philippines) /despoɾtiˈʎaɾ/ [d̪es.poɾ.t̪iˈʎaɾ]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /despoɾtiˈʃaɾ/ [d̪es.poɾ.t̪iˈʃaɾ]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /despoɾtiˈʒaɾ/ [d̪es.poɾ.t̪iˈʒaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: des‧por‧ti‧llar
Verb
[edit]desportillar (first-person singular present desportillo, first-person singular preterite desportillé, past participle desportillado)
- (transitive) to chip (to break a small piece from)
- Me desportillé un diente
- I chipped a tooth
- 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:
- Lienzos pintados, como telones de teatro, o más bien como pedazos de monumento de Semana Santa, estaban clavados verticalmente para servir de biombo o abrigo a la cama en que dormían los tres hijos de Caifás, y la armazón de una vieja manga-cruz sin forro tenía dentro ollas rotas, vasos desportillados, una calavera de palo y un libro de palo también, atributos estos dos objetos de alguna imagen de anacoreta.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of desportillar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “desportillar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28
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