estrellar
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /estɾeˈʝaɾ/ [es.t̪ɾeˈʝaɾ]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /estɾeˈʎaɾ/ [es.t̪ɾeˈʎaɾ]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /estɾeˈʃaɾ/ [es.t̪ɾeˈʃaɾ]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /estɾeˈʒaɾ/ [es.t̪ɾeˈʒaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: es‧tre‧llar
Etymology 1
[edit]Cf. estrella (“star”), through the sense of "to make into a star(shape)", by smashing.
Verb
[edit]estrellar (first-person singular present estrello, first-person singular preterite estrellé, past participle estrellado)
- to smash, shatter
- (also pronominal) to crash
- El coche se estrelló contra la pared. ― The car crashed into the wall.
- 2017, Tyto Alba, Fellini en Roma, Astiberri, →ISBN, page 9:
- ¡Dios mío! ¡Nos vamos a estrellar! ¡Vamos a morir todos!
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2022 September 4, Jesús A. Cañas, Reuters, “Un avión privado que había despegado de Jerez de la Frontera se estrella en Letonia”, in El País[1]:
- Un avión privado se ha estrellado la noche de este domingo frente a las costas de Letonia, según ha anunciado el servicio de rescate de Suecia, y después de que dos aviones militares lo siguieran durante parte de su trayectoria.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- to come to nothing
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of estrellar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of estrellar
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Inherited from Latin stellāris.
Adjective
[edit]estrellar m or f (masculine and feminine plural estrellares)
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “estrellar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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