reverdecer
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From verde.
Verb
[edit]reverdecer (first-person singular present reverdezco, first-person singular preterite reverdecí, past participle reverdecido)
- to become green again, go green again
- 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 272:
- Para que los naranjos marchitos reverdezcan y cobren su antigua lozanía, es bueno enterrar al pie de ellos el cadáver de un perro, o, mejor, de un gato.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- to revive, reanimate
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of reverdecer (c-zc alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Further reading
[edit]- “reverdecer”, 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