esmorzar

• (Valencia) almorzar

From Vulgar Latin *admordium (“breakfast”), from Latin admordēre (“snack”), but taking a verbal form to complete the series esmorzar, dinar (“to lunch”), berenar (“to have an afternoon snack”), sopar (“to have supper”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əz.murˈza]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əz.morˈza]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ez.moɾˈzaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

esmorzar (first-person singular present esmorzo, first-person singular preterite esmorzí, past participle esmorzat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /o/

1. (Central) to breakfast (first meal of the day)

   Synonyms: (Western) desdejunar, (Mallorca, Menorca) berenar

2. (Western) to have dinner (meal around midday, after breakfast)

esmorzar m (plural esmorzars)

1. (Central) breakfast (morning meal)

   Synonym: (Western) desdejuni

2. (Western) dinner (meal after breakfast)

• menjar, menjada

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