calcinar

Borrowed from French calciner.

• Hyphenation: cal‧ci‧nar

calcinar (first-person singular present calcino, first-person singular preterite calcinei, past participle calcinado)

1. (transitive) turn (something) into lime by the action of heat
2. (transitive) splitting a carbonate into carbon dioxide and metal oxide by heating
3. (transitive) burn
4. (transitive) reduce (something/someone) to ashes
5. (transitive, figuratively) overheat, scorch

• calcinação

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /kalθiˈnaɾ/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /kalsiˈnaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: cal‧ci‧nar

calcinar (first-person singular present calcino, first-person singular preterite calciné, past participle calcinado)

1. (transitive) to calcine
2. (transitive) to scorch, to burn
   • 2015 July 18, “20 minutos de terror en la residencia”, in El País‎:

     El jueves por la tarde los familiares de la propietaria del geriátrico calcinado recogían algunos objetos del viejo caserón y los metían en una furgoneta blanca.

     On Thursday afternoon, the relatives of the owner of the charred nursing home collected some objects from the old home and put them in a white van.

• “calcinar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10