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crestar
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Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: cres‧tar
Etymology 1
Verb
crestar (first-person singular present cresto, first-person singular preterite crestei, past participle crestado)
Conjugation
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Etymology 2
Probably from Latin castrāre, through metathesis (therefore a doublet of castrar). Compare Occitan crestar (“to castrate”); cf. also Romanian cresta (“cut; notch; make incisions”).
Verb
crestar (first-person singular present cresto, first-person singular preterite crestei, past participle crestado)
Conjugation
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Further reading
- “crestar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
- “crestar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
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