engastar

From Old Galician-Portuguese castoar, encastoar, engastoar; from en- + caston, probably borrowed from Old French chastun, a derivative of Proto-Germanic *kastô (“box”). Akin to French chaton.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /eŋɡasˈtaɾ/

engastar (first-person singular present engasto, first-person singular preterite engastei, past participle engastado)

1. to embed, to enchase
   • 1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla., Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 642:

     Et enpos ysto sacou seis copas d'ouro, en que auia X marcos engastoadas en elas muytas pedras preçiosas

     after this he put out six cups of gold, of ten marks, enchased with many gemstones

• gastar (“to carve”) (archaic)
• gastallo (“one of several types of clamps”)

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “encastoar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “engastoar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “engastar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “engastar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

engastar (first-person singular present engasto, first-person singular preterite engastei, past participle engastado)

1. to set, mount (a jewel); to embed, enchase
2. (figuratively) to introduce, to intercalate

• IPA^(key): /enɡasˈtaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: en‧gas‧tar

engastar (first-person singular present engasto, first-person singular preterite engasté, past participle engastado)

1. to set, mount (a jewel)

• “engastar”, 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