pessigar
Catalan
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [pə.siˈɣa]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [pe.siˈɣaɾ]
- Homophone: pessigà
- Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
Verb
pessigar (first-person singular present pessigo, first-person singular preterite pessiguí, past participle pessigat)
- (transitive, pronominal) to pinch
- Synonyms: mossegar, queixalar
- (transitive) to prick, to sting
- (transitive) to shock
- Synonym: enrampar
- (transitive) to pinch off
Conjugation
Conjugation of pessigar (first conjugation, g-gu alternation)
Related terms
Further reading
- “pessigar”, 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
- “pessigar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
- “pessigar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “pessigar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Anagrams
- aspergís, aspregis