encastar
Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From earlier encastrar, from Late Latin incastrāre, from castrō (“to prune”). Cognate with Italian incastrare (“to insert, embed”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]encastar (first-person singular present encasto, first-person singular preterite encastí, past participle encastat)
- (transitive) to insert, to embed
- (figurative, transitive) to plant, to press up against
- 1965, Jaume Berenguer Amenós, Alexis Zorbàs:
- Un vell, que vorejava la seixantena, molt alt, magre, d'ulls esbatanats, tenia encastat el nas al vidre i em mirava.
- An old man, verging on sixty, very tall, thin, wide-eyed, had his nose pressed to the glass and watched me.
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of encastar (first conjugation)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “encastar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]encastar (first-person singular present encasto, first-person singular preterite encasté, past participle encastado)
- to crossbreed (cattle) to improve its cast
- 1856, Fernando Amor, Estudios que sobre la Agricultura en sus varias aplicaciones:
- 200 merinos españoles fueron llevados tambien en 1776 á Francia, los que encastando con los del pais produjeron individuos de lana tan fina
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of encastar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of encastar
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Further reading
[edit]- “encastar”, 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