rachar

From an older *reachar, from acha (“splinter”), from Late Latin ascla, from Latin assula. Cognate with Portuguese rachar and related to Catalan asclar.

• IPA^(key): /raˈt͡ʃaɾ/

rachar (first-person singular present racho, first-person singular preterite rachei, past participle rachado)

1. (transitive) to tear, to rip

   Synonym: resgar

2. (transitive) to split, to cleave
3. (transitive) to splinter
4. (intransitive) to break, come apart

• “rachar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “rachar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “rachar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “rachar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Old Galician-Portuguese *reachar, from dialectal Ibero-Romance *acha (“to chip, to crack”), from Late Latin ascla, from Latin assula. Related to Catalan asclar.

• Hyphenation: ra‧char

rachar (first-person singular present racho, first-person singular preterite rachei, past participle rachado)

1. to crack
2. to split, cleave
3. to slit

• rachadura