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Spanish
Etymology
From centella, or possibly from Latin scintillāre, and thus a doublet of cintilar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain) /θenteˈʝaɾ/
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain) /θenteˈʎaɾ/
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /senteˈʝaɾ/
- IPA(key): (most of Latin America) /senteˈʝaɾ/
- IPA(key): (Andes Mountains, Philippines) /senteˈʎaɾ/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /senteˈʃaɾ/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /senteˈʒaɾ/
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: cen‧te‧llar
Verb
centellar (first-person singular present centello, first-person singular preterite centellé, past participle centellado)
- Obsolete form of centellear; to twinkle
Conjugation
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
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