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aletear
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Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
aletear (first-person singular present aleteo, first-person singular preterite aleteé, past participle aleteado)
- (intransitive) to flap (one's wings, fins) (of a bird or fish)
- 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 43:
- El Chonchón cae y se le siente aletear furiosamente, y no logrará moverse de donde está, por más esfuerzos que haga, hasta que otro Chonchón venga a levantarlo.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (intransitive) to flutter
- (intransitive) to wave one's arms like wings
Conjugation
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “aletear”, 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
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