aniquilar

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin annichilare, from Late Latin annihilare.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.ni.kiˈla]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.ni.kiˈlaɾ]

aniquilar (first-person singular present aniquilo, first-person singular preterite aniquilí, past participle aniquilat)

1. alternative form of anihilar (“to annihilate”)

Learned borrowing from Late Latin annihilāre (“to reduce to nothing”). Presence of -qu- is based on Medieval Latin pronunciation.

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌa.ni.ki.ˈlah/
• Hyphenation: a‧ni‧qui‧lar

aniquilar (first-person singular present aniquilo, first-person singular preterite aniquilei, past participle aniquilado)

1. to annihilate

   Synonyms: erradicar, exterminar

• aniquilação
• aniquilável
• aniquilamento

• “aniquilar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• anihilar (rare)

Borrowed from Medieval Latin annichilāre, present active infitive of annichilō, from Late Latin annihilāre (“to reduce to nothing”).

• IPA^(key): /anikiˈlaɾ/ [a.ni.kiˈlaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧ni‧qui‧lar

aniquilar (first-person singular present aniquilo, first-person singular preterite aniquilé, past participle aniquilado)

1. (transitive) to annihilate, reduce to nothing

• “aniquilar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024