menyscabar
Appearance
Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Vulgar Latin *minuscapāre. Cognate with Portuguese menoscabar.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Northern) [ˌme̞ɲs.kəˈβa]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [ˌmeɲs.kəˈba]
- IPA(key): (Central) [ˌmɛɲs.kəˈβa]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [ˌmeɲs.kaˈbaɾ]
- IPA(key): (Northwestern) [ˌmeɲs.kaˈβa]
Verb
[edit]menyscabar (first-person singular present menyscabo, first-person singular preterite menyscabí, past participle menyscabat)
- (archaic, ambitransitive) to lessen, to diminish
- (archaic, transitive) to damage, to harm
- La Comissió LIBE per al Parlament Europeu informa que la crisi econòmica ha menyscabat els nostres drets fonamentals.
- The LIBE Committee of the European Parliament reports that the economic crises has harmed our fundamental rights.
Conjugation
[edit] Central Catalan conjugation of menyscabar (first conjugation)
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| indicative | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
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| subjunctive | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
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| imperative | — | tu | vostè | nosaltres | vosaltres vós |
vostès | |
| affirmative | — | ||||||
| negative (no) | — | no menyscabis | no menyscabi | no menyscabem | no menyscabeu | no menyscabin | |
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “menyscabar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “menyscabar”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)