exfoliar

Borrowed from Late Latin exfoliāre (“to strip of leaves”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əks.fu.liˈa]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əks.fo.liˈa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [eks.fo.liˈaɾ]

exfoliar (first-person singular present exfolio, first-person singular preterite exfolií, past participle exfoliat)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to split into scales or sheets
   • 2010, Antoni Lacasa i Ruiz, Javier Lozano, Sorgint del mar:

     Durant l'explotació comercial, en exfoliar les lloses, aparegué una gran varietat de fòssils d'animals i de vegetals extraordinàriament preservats.

     During the commercial exploitation, while exfoliating the flagstones, a great variety of extraordinarily preserved animal and vegetal fossils appeared.

• “exfoliar”, 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

Borrowed from Late Latin exfoliāre (“to strip of leaves”).

• IPA^(key): /eɡsfoˈljaɾ/ [eɣ̞s.foˈljaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ex‧fo‧liar

exfoliar (first-person singular present exfolio, first-person singular preterite exfolié, past participle exfoliado)

1. (transitive) to exfoliate

• “exfoliar”, 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