desatornillar
Spanish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From des- + atornillar, from tornillo, from torno, from Latin tornus, from Ancient Greek τόρνος (tórnos), from Proto-Indo-European *torh₂no-, from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, bore, twist”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /desatoɾniˈʝaɾ/ [d̪e.sa.t̪oɾ.niˈʝaɾ] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
- IPA(key): /desatoɾniˈʎaɾ/ [d̪e.sa.t̪oɾ.niˈʎaɾ] (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /desatoɾniˈʃaɾ/ [d̪e.sa.t̪oɾ.niˈʃaɾ] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /desatoɾniˈʒaɾ/ [d̪e.sa.t̪oɾ.niˈʒaɾ] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
- IPA(key): /desatoɾniˈaɾ/ [d̪e.sa.t̪oɾ.niˈaɾ] (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: de‧sa‧tor‧ni‧llar
Verb
[edit]desatornillar (first-person singular present desatornillo, first-person singular preterite desatornillé, past participle desatornillado)
- (transitive) to unscrew
- Antonym: atornillar
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of desatornillar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Further reading
[edit]- “desatornillar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
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