exfoliar
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Late Latin exfoliāre (“to strip of leaves”).
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Central) [əks.fu.liˈa]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [əks.fo.liˈa]
- IPA(key): (Valencian) [eks.fo.liˈaɾ]
Verb edit
exfoliar (first-person singular present exfolio, first-person singular preterite exfolií, past participle exfoliat)
- (transitive, reflexive) to split into scales or sheets
- 2010, Antoni Lacasa i Ruiz, Javier Lozano, Sorgint del mar:
- Durant l'explotació comercial, en exfoliar les lloses, aparegué una gran varietat de fòssils d'animals i de vegetals extraordinàriament preservats.
- During the commercial exploitation, while exfoliating the flagstones, a great variety of extraordinarily preserved animal and vegetal fossils appeared.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of exfoliar (first conjugation)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “exfoliar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Late Latin exfoliāre (“to strip of leaves”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
exfoliar (first-person singular present exfolio, first-person singular preterite exfolié, past participle exfoliado)
- (transitive) to exfoliate
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of exfoliar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Further reading edit
- “exfoliar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014