desatornillar
Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From des- + atornillar, from tornillo, from torno, from Latin tornus, from Ancient Greek τόρνος (tórnos), from Proto-Indo-European *torh₂no-, from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, bore, twist”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /desatoɾniˈʝaɾ/ [d̪e.sa.t̪oɾ.niˈʝaɾ] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /desatoɾniˈʎaɾ/ [d̪e.sa.t̪oɾ.niˈʎaɾ] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /desatoɾniˈʃaɾ/ [d̪e.sa.t̪oɾ.niˈʃaɾ] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /desatoɾniˈʒaɾ/ [d̪e.sa.t̪oɾ.niˈʒaɾ] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: de‧sa‧tor‧ni‧llar
Verb
desatornillar (first-person singular present desatornillo, first-person singular preterite desatornillé, past participle desatornillado)
- (transitive) to unscrew
- Antonym: atornillar
Conjugation
Conjugation of desatornillar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Further reading
- “desatornillar”, 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