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单词 esmerar
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esmerar

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *exmerāre (to purify), from Latin ex merēre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [esmeˈɾaɾ]

Verb

esmerar (first-person singular present esmero, first-person singular preterite esmerei, past participle esmerado)

  1. (transitive) to clean, purify
    • c1300, R. Martínez López (ed.), General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV. Oviedo: Archivum, page 271:
      cõmo faz a lyma ao ferro, et a fornaz ao ouro que o purga et esmera et o faz puro et paresçe mellor, et cõmo faz outrosi o máále áá messe que a degrana em çeueyra et parte a palla do graão que e o mellor
      as the file does to iron, and the furnace to gold, that purges and cleans it and makes it pure and looks better; and also as the flail does to the harvest, that threshes it into sustenance and parts the straw and the grain, which is the best part
  2. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to work with effort and dedication

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • esmerado
  • esmero

References

  • esmerar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • esmer” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • esmerar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • esmerar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *exmerāre (to purify), from Latin ex merēre. Compare Spanish esmerar.

Verb

esmerar (first-person singular present esmero, first-person singular preterite esmerei, past participle esmerado)

  1. to hone (to refine or master a skill)
    Synonyms: aperfeiçoar, apurar
  2. inflection of esmerar:
    1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive
    2. first/third-person singular personal infinitive

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • esmero

Further reading

  • esmerar” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
  • esmerar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *exmerāre (to purify).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /esmeˈɾaɾ/ [ez.meˈɾaɾ]
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Syllabification: es‧me‧rar

Verb

esmerar (first-person singular present esmero, first-person singular preterite esmeré, past participle esmerado)

  1. (transitive) to clean
    Synonyms: pulir, limpiar, ilustrar
  2. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to hone, to painstakingly do something

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • esmero
  • esmerado
  • esmerarse

Further reading

  • esmerar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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