rozar

• roçar (Reintegrationist)

From Old Galician-Portuguese roçar, from Vulgar Latin *ruptiāre, from Latin ruptus (“broken”). Compare Portuguese roçar and Spanish rozar.

• Rhymes: -aɾ

rozar (first-person singular present rozo, first-person singular preterite rocei, past participle rozado)

1. to break up a field

   Synonym: cavar

2. to slash and burn a field

   Synonyms: cachar, estivar

3. to clean or mow brambles and bushes

   Synonym: desbravar

4. to rub
5. to skim

• romper
• roto

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “roça”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “rozar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “rozar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “rozar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *ruptiāre, from Latin ruptus (“broken”). Compare Portuguese roçar.

• IPA^(key): /roˈθaɾ/ [roˈθaɾ] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /roˈsaɾ/ [roˈsaɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ro‧zar

rozar (first-person singular present rozo, first-person singular preterite rocé, past participle rozado)

1. to clear or scrape land

   Synonyms: desmatar, desbrozar, clarear

2. to graze, to brush (touch lightly and briefly)
   • 1904, Luis Ruiz Contreras, translating Anatole France, Thaïs. La cortesana de Alejandría, chapter IV:

     la tela de un vestido de mujer que roza el suelo al andar

     the fabric of a woman's dress brushing the ground as she walks

3. (figurative) to border (on) (be close to)

   un salario que roza los mil euros ― a salary bordering on a thousand euros

   roza la perfección ― it borders on perfection

   El descuento roza el 40%. ― The discount is close to 40%.

   • 2020 July 16, “Una sanitaria en L’Hospitalet de Llobregat: “El ambulatorio roza el colapso, peor que en abril””, in El País‎^[1]:

     “Estamos rozando el colapso”, advierte Gemma Hernández, la jefa de servicio del ambulatorio.

     “We're on the brink of collapsing,” warns Gemma Hernández, the head of mobile services.

• “rozar”, 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