estercar
Galician edit
Etymology edit
A denominal verb from esterco.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
estercar (first-person singular present esterco, first-person singular preterite esterquei, past participle estercado)
- to manure a field or a plant
- 1422, J. García Oro, editor, Viveiro en los siglos XIV y XV. La Colección Diplomática de Santo Domingo de Viveiro, Estudios Mindonienses, 3, page 82:
- Et avedesla de lavrar e provar de pees de bona fruge e de madeira pertesçentemente, nin das mellores nin das piores, das testadas, et avedesla de estercar cada des annos huna ves per onde vay o rio e pero onde viren que compre a vista de huun noso fraire.
- and you should work it and populate it with vines of good lineage and with wood correspondingly, neither of the best nor of the worst ones, of the headed ones; and you shall manure them each ten years, once by the way of the river and wherever it is needed, at the survey of one of our friars
- to defecate (of animals)
- 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 105:
- Outra enfirmidade se faz enno ventre do Cauallo que faz rrugyr as tripas, et faz a miude estercar o Cauallo cruu et rraro como agooa
- another sickness happens in the belly of the horse that make the guts rumble, and frequently it makes the horse defecate raw and sparse as water
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of estercar (c-qu alternation)
Reintegrated conjugation of estercar (c-qu alternation) (See Appendix:Reintegrationism)
1Less recommended.
Related terms edit
References edit
- “estercar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “estercar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “estercar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “estercar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
- “estercar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
See esterco
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: es‧ter‧car
Verb edit
estercar (first-person singular present esterco, first-person singular preterite esterquei, past participle estercado)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of estercar (c-qu alternation) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.