esquinçar

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *exquīntiāre (“break into five pieces”), from quīntus (“fifth”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əs.kinˈsa]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əs.kinˈsa], [əs.kiɲˈʃa] (Menorca, Ibiza)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [es.kinˈsaɾ]

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esquinçar (first-person singular present esquinço, first-person singular preterite esquincí, past participle esquinçat)

1. (transitive) to tear, rip
   • 2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 7, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:

     A la nit: un tret d'en Batís em frega el braç. Esquinça la màniga i em fereix superficialment.

     At night: at shot by Batís grazes my arm. It tears the sleeve and gives me a superficial wound.

2. (intransitive, pronominal) to tear, rip

   Synonym: rifar-se

   El vestit es va esquinçar i va mostrar un dels seus pits.

   The dress tore and exposed one of her breasts.

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

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Vulgar Latin exquintiāre. Compare Catalan esquinçar, Spanish esquinzar, desguinzar.

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esquinçar

1. to tear (make a tear)

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