banderillear
Spanish
Etymology
From banderilla + -ear.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bandeɾiʝeˈaɾ/ [bãn̪.d̪e.ɾi.ʝeˈaɾ] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /bandeɾiʎeˈaɾ/ [bãn̪.d̪e.ɾi.ʎeˈaɾ] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /bandeɾiʃeˈaɾ/ [bãn̪.d̪e.ɾi.ʃeˈaɾ] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /bandeɾiʒeˈaɾ/ [bãn̪.d̪e.ɾi.ʒeˈaɾ] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: ban‧de‧ri‧lle‧ar
Verb
banderillear (first-person singular present banderilleo, first-person singular preterite banderilleé, past participle banderilleado)
- (bullfighting, transitive) to stick banderillas in the bull
- 2015 October 14, “La afición de Zaragoza se entrega a un agradecido, efectista y desigual Padilla”, in El País[1]:
- El Fandi brilló solo en los primeros tercios de la lidia de los dos de su lote, sobre todo al banderillear con espectacularidad a su primero, que sacó genio defensivo hasta que decidió echarse por su cuenta sobre la arena.
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Conjugation
Conjugation of banderillear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Further reading
- “banderillear”, 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