encastar

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Catalan

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Etymology

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From earlier encastrar, from Late Latin incastrāre, from castrō (to prune). Cognate with Italian incastrare (to insert, embed).

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encastar (first-person singular present encasto, first-person singular preterite encastí, past participle encastat)

  1. (transitive) to insert, to embed
  2. (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.

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Spanish

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encastar (first-person singular present encasto, first-person singular preterite encasté, past participle encastado)

  1. 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)

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