pellucar

Catalan

Alternative forms
  • pellicar

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pilūc(i)cāre, ultimately from Latin pilāre (“remove hair”). The regular outcome in Catalan would have been *pelucar; the ⟨ll⟩ /ʎ/ was taken from pell (“skin, pelt”).

Pronunciation

Verb

pellucar (first-person singular present pelluco, first-person singular preterite pelluquí, past participle pellucat)

  1. (transitive) to pick at (food), to nibble

Conjugation
    Conjugation of pellucar (first conjugation, c-qu alternation)
infinitive pellucar
gerund pellucant
past participle masculine feminine
singular pellucat pellucada
plural pellucats pellucades
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative jo tu ell/ella
vostè		 nosaltres
nós		 vosaltres
vós		 ells/elles
vostès
present pelluco pelluques pelluca pelluquem pelluqueu pelluquen
imperfect pellucava pellucaves pellucava pellucàvem pellucàveu pellucaven
future pellucaré pellucaràs pellucarà pellucarem pellucareu pellucaran
preterite pelluquí pellucares pellucà pellucàrem pellucàreu pellucaren
conditional pellucaria pellucaries pellucaria pellucaríem pellucaríeu pellucarien
subjunctive jo tu ell/ella
vostè		 nosaltres
nós		 vosaltres
vós		 ells/elles
vostès
present pelluqui pelluquis pelluqui pelluquem pelluqueu pelluquin
imperfect pelluqués pelluquessis pelluqués pelluquéssim pelluquéssiu pelluquessin
imperative — tu vostè nosaltres vosaltres
vós		 vostès
affirmative — pelluca pelluqui pelluquem pelluqueu pelluquin
negative (no) — no pelluquis no pelluqui no pelluquem no pelluqueu no pelluquin

Derived terms
  • pellucalles

References
  • “pellucar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Further reading
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