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Spanish
Etymology
From des- + atornillar, from tornillo, from torno, from Latin tornus, from Ancient Greek τόρνος (tórnos), from Proto-Indo-European *torh₂no-, from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, bore, twist”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /desatoɾniˈʝaɾ/
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Philippines) /desatoɾniˈʎaɾ/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /desatoɾniˈʃaɾ/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /desatoɾniˈʒaɾ/
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: de‧sa‧tor‧ni‧llar
Verb
desatornillar (first-person singular present desatornillo, first-person singular preterite desatornillé, past participle desatornillado)
- (transitive) to unscrew
- Antonym: atornillar
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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