enderrocar
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Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From en- + derrocar. First attested in the 14th century.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Northern, Central) [ən.də.ruˈka]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [ən.də.roˈka]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [en.de.roˈkaɾ]
- IPA(key): (Northwestern) [en.de.roˈka]
Audio (Barcelona): (file) - Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
Verb
[edit]enderrocar (first-person singular present enderroco, first-person singular preterite enderroquí, past participle enderrocat); root stress: (Northern) /o̞/; (Balearic, Central, Northwestern, Valencia) /ɔ/
- (transitive) to knock down, to pull down, to tear down; to demolish
- 2020 July 10, Josep Maria Fonalleras, “Estàtues”, in El Punt Avui[1]:
- Enderrocar estàtues de filibusters, negrers, plutòcrates i opressors també ensenya història a les noves generacions, la mateixa història que ensenyaven les estàtues ara criticades, però, és clar, amb uns criteris diferents.
- Knocking down statues of pirates, slave traders, plutocrats and oppressors also teaches history to new generations, the same history that the now criticized statues taught, but, of course, with different views.
- (transitive) to overthrow (to bring about the downfall of, especially by force)
Conjugation
[edit] Central Catalan conjugation of enderrocar (first conjugation, c-qu alternation)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “enderrocar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
Further reading
[edit]- “enderrocar”, 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
- “enderrocar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “enderrocar”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
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