encalabozar
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Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From en- + calabozo (“dungeon, jail cell”) + -ar.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /enkalaboˈθaɾ/ [ẽŋ.ka.la.β̞oˈθaɾ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /enkalaboˈsaɾ/ [ẽŋ.ka.la.β̞oˈsaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: en‧ca‧la‧bo‧zar
Verb
[edit]encalabozar (first-person singular present encalabozo, first-person singular preterite encalabocé, past participle encalabozado)
- (informal, transitive) to jail, imprison (especially in a dungeon)
- Synonym: encarcelar
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of encalabozar (c-z alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of encalabozar (c-z alternation)
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Further reading
[edit]- “encalabozar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Categories:
- Spanish terms prefixed with en-
- Spanish terms suffixed with -ar
- Spanish 5-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Spanish/aɾ
- Rhymes:Spanish/aɾ/5 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish verbs
- Spanish verbs ending in -ar
- Spanish verbs with c-z alternation
- Spanish informal terms
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