pedregar
Catalan
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
pedregar m (plural pedregars)
- stony ground
- Synonym: pedreguer
Derived terms
- anar el carro pel pedregar
Etymology 2
From pedra (“stone”) + -egar from Latin -icāre.
Verb
pedregar (first-person singular present pedrego, first-person singular preterite pedreguí, past participle pedregat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/
- (impersonal) to hail
- Synonyms: calamarsejar, granissar
Conjugation
Forms other than the third person are rarely used except in a poetic sense.
Conjugation of pedregar (first conjugation, g-gu alternation)
Derived terms
- pedrega
- pedregada
Further reading
- “pedregar”, 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