batre

Inherited from Latin battere, from earlier battuere. Compare Occitan batre, French battre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈba.tɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈba.tɾe]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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• Rhymes: -atɾe

batre (first-person singular present bato, first-person singular preterite batí, past participle batut)

1. (transitive) to beat
2. (transitive) to thresh
3. (transitive) to hammer, to pound
4. (transitive) to batter, beat up, to plunder
5. (ambitransitive, baseball) to bat
6. (intransitive) to beat
7. (pronominal) to fight

• batuta

• “batre”, 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
• “batre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

batre

1. alternative form of bature

batre

1. alternative form of bateren

• bàter (Gascony)

From Old Occitan batre, from Latin battere, from earlier battuere.

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batre

1. to hit; to strike

From Latin battere, from earlier battuere.

batre

1. to beat; to hit; to strike

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• abatre
• combatre
• esbatre

• Middle French: battre
  • French: battre
• Norman: battre
• Walloon: bate
• Middle English: baten, bate, battyn, batyn
  • English: bat; bate
  • Scots: bat, batt
  • ⇒ Middle English: bateren, batre
    • English: batter
    • Scots: batter