escarmentar
Catalan edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
escarmentar (first-person singular present escarmento, first-person singular preterite escarmentí, past participle escarmentat); root stress: (Central, Valencian, Balearic) /e/
- (transitive) to punish, to teach a lesson to
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to learn one's lesson
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of escarmentar (first conjugation)
Further reading edit
- “escarmentar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “escarmentar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “escarmentar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: es‧car‧men‧tar
Verb edit
escarmentar (first-person singular present escarmento, first-person singular preterite escarmentei, past participle escarmentado)
- (transitive) to reprehend, to rebuke, to reprove
- Synonyms: repreender, castigar, traquejar
- (reflexive) to learn by reprehension; to regret
- Synonym: arrepender
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of escarmentar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
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Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From escarmiento.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
escarmentar (first-person singular present escarmiento, first-person singular preterite escarmenté, past participle escarmentado)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of escarmentar (e-ie alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of escarmentar (e-ie alternation)
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
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Further reading edit
- “escarmentar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014