Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Catalan apellar, from Latin appellāre. The contemporary Latinised pronunciation (with geminate /ll/ rather than historic /ʎ/) is due to its use in predominantly legal contexts.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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apel·lar (first-person singular present apel·lo, first-person singular preterite apel·lí, past participle apel·lat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/

  1. (intransitive) to appeal [with a ‘to’]; to call upon
  2. (intransitive, figurative) to resort [with a ‘to’]
    sense apel·lar a altres recursoswithout resorting to other means

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