esquinar
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: es‧qui‧nar
Verb edit
esquinar (first-person singular present esquino, first-person singular preterite esquinei, past participle esquinado)
- (transitive) to corner; skew
- (transitive) to cut at an angle; facet
- (intransitive) to turn a corner
- (intransitive, informal) to flee; sneak away
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to get a little drunk
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of esquinar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Further reading edit
- “esquinar” in iDicionário Aulete.
- “esquinar” in Dicionário inFormal.
- “esquinar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “esquinar” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “esquinar” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
- “esquinar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
esquinar (first-person singular present esquino, first-person singular preterite esquiné, past participle esquinado)
- to be on the corner (of)
- to corner, put (something) into a corner
- to square off, square
- to tick off (annoy)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of esquinar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Further reading edit
- “esquinar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014