repenicar

repenicar

Galician

Repinicáde o pandeiro,
Nenas dos portos de mar;

Etymology

Perhaps a blend of repicar (“to ring; to bite”) with empinar (“to hold up”),[1] or rather with depenicar (“to displume, to pluck”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /repeniˈkaɾ/, /repiniˈkaɾ/

Verb

repenicar (first-person singular present repenico, first-person singular preterite repeniquei, past participle repenicado)

1. to ring a bell, in a fast allegro way; similarly, to play an allegro in a drum or tambourine
   • 1814, Manuel Pardo de Andrade, Romance:

     Repinicáde o pandeiro,

     Nenas dos portos de mar;

     Para tocálo Rianxo

     E a Avia para bailar.

     O Miño tempére a gaita,

     Anque marre o brencellau;

     E mais que non quede pinga,

     Xarro tras xarro e brindár.

     Os barrosos e pardiños,

     Xuro a brios, que an de danzar,

     Sin que o estorven as cadrillas

     Dos valentes Roquetaus.

     Ring your tambourine,

     girls from the sea harbors;

     [best] at playing it, Rianxo;

     the land of Avia, at dancing.

     Let the Miño warms the bagpipe,

     even if the good wine is not enough;

     Do not leave a drop,

     pitcher after pitcher and toast.

     Highlanders and lowlanders,

     I sweat they ought to dance,

     no fault on the teams

     of the valiant people of Lemos.

   Synonym: repicar

2. to tap or drum repeatedly
   • 1977, Suso Vaamonde / traditional, Ua! (song):

     este pandeiro que toco

     por moito que repenique

     non teñas medo que rache

     que é de coiro de cacique

     this tambourine I play,

     no matter how much I drum it,

     have no fear, it won't break,

     'cause is made of tyrant skin

3. to engrave (wood), to adorn

   Synonym: gravar

4. to chew
5. to pinch
6. to pound

Conjugation

• Note: repenic- are changed to repeniqu- before front vowels (e).

Conjugation of repenicar

	singular			plural
person	first	second	third	first	second	third
Infinitive	eu	ti	el/ela/Vde.	nós	vós	eles/elas/Vdes.
impersonal	repenicar
personal	repenicar	repenicares	repenicar	repenicarmos	repenicardes	repenicaren
Gerund
	repenicando
Past participle	singular			plural
masculine	repenicado			repenicados
feminine	repenicada			repenicadas
Indicative	eu	ti	el/ela/Vde.	nós	vós	eles/elas/Vdes.
present	repenico	repenicas	repenica	repenicamos	repenicades	repenican
imperfect	repenicaba	repenicabas	repenicaba	repenicabamos	repenicabades	repenicaban
preterite	repeniquei	repenicaches	repenicou	repenicamos	repenicastes	repenicaron
pluperfect	repenicara	repenicaras	repenicara	repenicaramos	repenicarades	repenicaran
future	repenicarei	repenicarás	repenicará	repenicaremos	repenicaredes	repenicarán
conditional	repenicaría	repenicarías	repenicaría	repenicariamos	repenicariades	repenicarían
Subjunctive	eu	ti	el/ela/Vde.	nós	vós	eles/elas/Vdes.
present	repenique	repeniques	repenique	repeniquemos	repeniquedes	repeniquen
preterite	repenicase	repenicases	repenicase	repenicásemos	repenicásedes	repenicasen
future	repenicar	repenicares	repenicar	repenicarmos	repenicardes	repenicaren
Imperative	–	ti	el/ela/Vde.	nós	vós	eles/elas/Vdes.
affirmative	–	repenica	repenique	repeniquemos	repenicade	repeniquen
negative	–	repeniques	repenique	repeniquemos	repeniquedes	repeniquen

Derived terms

• repenico

Related terms

• penico
• repicar

References

• “repenicar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “repenicar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “repenicar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

1. Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “picar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos