sostreure

• sostraure

Borrowed from Latin subtrahere (“to remove”); adapted to inherited treure and with the first syllable altered by analogy with words like sosllevar and soscavar, which contain a prefix derived from the archaic preposition sots.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [susˈtɾɛw.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [sosˈtɾɛw.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [sosˈtɾew.ɾe]

sostreure (first-person singular present sostrec or sostrac, first-person singular preterite sostraguí, past participle sostret); root stress: (Central, Balearic) /ɛ/; (Valencian) /e/

1. (transitive) to remove, to relieve, to take away

   Res no podrà sostreure a l’esser humà de les tristes condicions de la seva existència: patir i morir.

   Nothing will be able to relieve human beings of the sad conditions of their existence: to suffer and die.

2. (arithmetic, transitive) to subtract
3. (transitive) to steal
4. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to steal away, to get away (from a), to evade, to resist

   Em vaig poder sostreure a l'entorn hostil que hi havia.

   I was able to escape the hostile environment that was there.

• sostreta

• sostracció
• treure

• “sostreure” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.