estrar

Galician

Etymology

Back-formation from estrado, from Latin strātum (“bed”), from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃-.

Cognate with English strew.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈtɾaɾ/

Verb

1. (dated) to pave; to orderly cover a surface
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), 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

Related terms

• estrada
• estrado
• estrumar
• estrume
• estrumeira

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “estrar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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• “estrar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Swedish

Noun

estrar

1. (deprecated template usage) indefinite plural of ester

Anagrams

• arters, raster, tsarer