estrar

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Asturian[edit]

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estrar (first-person singular indicative present estro, past participle estráu)

  1. to prepare the animal's bed, to cover the floor of a stable with straw or ferns (estru) (for animals to sleep)
  2. to spread on the ground
  3. (dated) to pave a road

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Galician[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Back-formation from estrado, from Latin strātum (bed), from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃-.[1]

Cognate with English strew.

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Verb[edit]

estrar (first-person singular present estro, first-person singular preterite estrei, past participle estrado)

  1. (dated) to pave; to orderly cover a surface
    • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 231:
      Et as rruas erã moy grãdes, de hũa parte et da outra, et erã feytas per grande engeño, et erã de suso cubertas de bóueda, et juso erã estradas per poyaes de boa pedra laurada
      And the streets were wide, in one side and the other, and were made with great intelligence, and they were covered by a vault, and they were paved with large squared stones
  2. to orderly cover with litter the floor of the stall or a field
    Synonyms: fondar, mulir, estrumar
  3. to litter a place
    Synonyms: ciscar, lixar

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “estrado”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Swedish[edit]

Noun[edit]

estrar

  1. indefinite plural of ester

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