esqueixar

== Catalan == === Etymology === Inherited from Vulgar Latin *excapsiāre, literally "to break a box", from capsa (“box, case”). Compare Sicilian scasciari (“split apart”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [əs.kəˈʃa] IPA(key): (Valencia) [es.kejˈʃaɾ] Rhymes: -a(ɾ) === Verb === esqueixar (first-person singular present esqueixo, first-person singular preterite esqueixí, past participle esqueixat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/ to rip esqueixar una tela ― to rip a piece of cloth to rip off (a branch of a plant) han esqueixat una branca de la figuera ― they have ripped off a branch of the fig tree to split or rip following the direction of the fibers (a fibrous object) ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== esqueix esqueixat === Further reading === “esqueixar”, 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