adreçar

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan, from Vulgar Latin *drēctiāre (compare Occitan adreçar, French adresser, syncopated form of *dīrēctiāre, from Latin dīrēctus. First attested in the 14th century.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.ðɾəˈsa]
  • IPA(key): (Valencia) [a.ðɾeˈsaɾ]
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Verb

adreçar (first-person singular present adreço, first-person singular preterite adrecí, past participle adreçat); root stress: (Central, Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/

  1. to address; to confront

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • adreçar-se

References

  1. ^ adreçar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

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