centellar
Spanish
Etymology
From centella, or possibly from Latin scintillāre, and thus a doublet of cintilar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain) /θenteˈʝaɾ/ [θẽn̪.t̪eˈʝaɾ]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain) /θenteˈʎaɾ/ [θẽn̪.t̪eˈʎaɾ]
- IPA(key): (most of Latin America) /senteˈʝaɾ/ [sẽn̪.t̪eˈʝaɾ]
- IPA(key): (Andes Mountains) /senteˈʎaɾ/ [sẽn̪.t̪eˈʎaɾ]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /senteˈʃaɾ/ [sẽn̪.t̪eˈʃaɾ]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /senteˈʒaɾ/ [sẽn̪.t̪eˈʒaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: cen‧te‧llar
Verb
centellar (first-person singular present centello, first-person singular preterite centellé, past participle centellado)
- Obsolete form of centellear; to twinkle
Conjugation
Further reading
- “centellar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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