amuntegar
Catalan
Alternative forms
- amuntregar (dialectal)
Etymology
From munt (“heap”).
Pronunciation
Verb
amuntegar (first-person singular present amuntego, first-person singular preterite amunteguí, past participle amuntegat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/
- (transitive) to pile up
- Synonym: apilar
- (transitive, figurative) to accumulate, to hoard
- Synonym: acumular
- (intransitive, pronominal) to pile up; to accumulate
Conjugation
Conjugation of amuntegar (first conjugation, g-gu alternation)
Synonyms
Derived terms
- amuntegador
- amuntegament
Further reading
- “amuntegar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “amuntegar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025