escarmentar

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əs.kər.mənˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [es.kaɾ.menˈtaɾ]

escarmentar (first-person singular present escarmento, first-person singular preterite escarmentí, past participle escarmentat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. (transitive) to punish, to teach a lesson to
2. (pronominal) to learn one's lesson

• “escarmentar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “escarmentar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “escarmentar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• Hyphenation: es‧car‧men‧tar

escarmentar (first-person singular present escarmento, first-person singular preterite escarmentei, past participle escarmentado)

1. (transitive) to reprehend, to rebuke, to reprove

   Synonyms: repreender, castigar, traquejar

2. (reflexive) to learn by reprehension; to regret

   Synonym: arrepender

• escarmento
• escárnio

From escarmiento.

• IPA^(key): /eskaɾmenˈtaɾ/ [es.kaɾ.mẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: es‧car‧men‧tar

escarmentar (first-person singular present escarmiento, first-person singular preterite escarmenté, past participle escarmentado)

1. to punish severely, reprimand, rebuke

   Synonyms: retar, regañar, reñir, increpar

2. to learn a lesson

• “escarmentar”, 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