esporgar
Appearance
Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin expurgāre. Doublet of expurgar.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Central) [əs.purˈɡa]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [əs.porˈɡa]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [es.poɾˈɣaɾ]
- Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
Verb
[edit]esporgar (first-person singular present esporgo, first-person singular preterite esporguí, past participle esporgat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /o/
- (transitive) to prune (to remove excess material from a tree or shrub)
- Synonym: podar
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of esporgar (first conjugation, g-gu alternation)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “esporgar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April