encastar

== Catalan == === Etymology === From earlier encastrar, from Late Latin incastrāre, from castrō (“to prune”). Cognate with Italian incastrare (“to insert, embed”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [əŋ.kəsˈta] IPA(key): (Valencia) [eŋ.kasˈtaɾ] === Verb === encastar (first-person singular present encasto, first-person singular preterite encastí, past participle encastat) (transitive) to insert, to embed (figurative, transitive) to plant, to press up against ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== encast encastat === Further reading === “encastar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007 == Spanish == === Verb === encastar (first-person singular present encasto, first-person singular preterite encasté, past participle encastado) to crossbreed (cattle) to improve its cast ==== Conjugation ==== === Further reading === “encastar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025