perdigar
Spanish
editEtymology
editA verb based ultimately on Latin perdix (“partridge”), whence Spanish perdiz.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editperdigar (first-person singular present perdigo, first-person singular preterite perdigué, past participle perdigado)
- to fry lighty
- 1854, Novelistas posteriores a Cervantes. Tomo 2, con un bosquejo historico sobre la novel espanola, 270: Novelistas posteriores a Cervantes. Tomo 2, con un bosquejo historico sobre la novel espanola
- Dicho y hecho, ya la huésped las ponia á perdigar; calificaron todos á nuestro poeta por hombre de buen humor.
- Said and done, the guest already put them to fry lightly; they all rated our poet as a man of good humor.
- 1854, Novelistas posteriores a Cervantes. Tomo 2, con un bosquejo historico sobre la novel espanola, 270: Novelistas posteriores a Cervantes. Tomo 2, con un bosquejo historico sobre la novel espanola
- to roast lighty
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of perdigar (g-gu alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of perdigar (g-gu alternation)
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1985) “perdiz”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume IV (Me–Re), Gredos, →ISBN, page 488
Further reading
edit- “perdigar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014