rehilar
Spanish
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *refilare[1], which is derived from Latin fīlum (“thread”).
Pronunciation
Verb
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- (transitive) to twist hard; to spin too much
- 2015, Miguel Ángel Cañedo Fernández, Manejo y mantenimiento de equipos de recolección de productos agrarios, 5th edition, page 73:
- Los filamentos sintéticos plásticos que se presentan de forma continua, son cortados previamente por una máquina cortadora para asimilarlos a las fibras naturales. Muchas veces se rehílan en máquinas de hilado de algodón o lana para eliminar el aspecto vítreo y brillante de las telas sintéticas.
- Plastic synthetic filaments that appear in continuous form are previously cut by a cutting machine to make them resemble natural fibers. Often they are twisted hard in cotton- or wool-spinning machines to remove the glassy and shiny appearance of synthetic fabrics.
- (intransitive) to quiver, to tremble
- Synonym: temblar
- 2011, Luis Miguel González, La agonía de la serpiente, →ISBN, page 182:
- —Un café sería lo más apropiado para mis nervios— contestó David que mostraba a su amigo cómo le rehilaban las manos —; mejor dame un chatito de vino.
- "A coffee would be the most appropriate thing for my nerves," answered David, who showed his friend how his hands trembled. "Even better, give me a little tumbler of wine."
- (transitive, phonetics) to pronounce some consonants as a postalveolar fricative (as either voiced /ʒ/ or voiceless /ʃ/)
- 2015 [1988], José G. Moreno de Alba, El español en América, →ISBN:
- De conformidad con Argüello (1987: 663), en Ecuador se conserva la /ll/ en el nororiente y en el sur; en la Sierra se sonoriza y se rehíla; hay yeísmo en la costa.
- As per Argüello (1987: 663), in Ecuador, /ll/ is preserved in the northeast and in the south; in the Sierra it is voiced and pronounced as a postalveolar fricative; there is yeísmo on the coast.
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Further reading
- “rehilar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014