desportillar
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
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Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /despoɾtiˈʝaɾ/ [d̪es.poɾ.t̪iˈʝaɾ] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
- IPA(key): /despoɾtiˈʎaɾ/ [d̪es.poɾ.t̪iˈʎaɾ] (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /despoɾtiˈʃaɾ/ [d̪es.poɾ.t̪iˈʃaɾ] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /despoɾtiˈʒaɾ/ [d̪es.poɾ.t̪iˈʒaɾ] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
- IPA(key): /despoɾtiˈaɾ/ [d̪es.poɾ.t̪iˈaɾ] (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: des‧por‧ti‧llar
Verb
[edit]desportillar (first-person singular present desportillo, first-person singular preterite desportillé, past participle desportillado)
- (transitive) to chip (to break a small piece from)
- Me desportillé un diente
- I chipped a tooth
- 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:
- Lienzos pintados, como telones de teatro, o más bien como pedazos de monumento de Semana Santa, estaban clavados verticalmente para servir de biombo o abrigo a la cama en que dormían los tres hijos de Caifás, y la armazón de una vieja manga-cruz sin forro tenía dentro ollas rotas, vasos desportillados, una calavera de palo y un libro de palo también, atributos estos dos objetos de alguna imagen de anacoreta.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of desportillar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “desportillar”, 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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- Spanish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (fare)
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- Rhymes:Spanish/aɾ
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