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Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Latin dēstillāre (“to distil, trickle”). Compare the borrowed doublet destilar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /desteˈʝaɾ/
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Philippines) /desteˈʎaɾ/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /desteˈʃaɾ/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /desteˈʒaɾ/
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: des‧te‧llar
Verb
destellar (first-person singular present destello, first-person singular preterite destellé, past participle destellado)
- to sparkle, 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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