ensanchar

From Early Medieval Latin examplāre, from Latin amplus.

• IPA^(key):

ensanchar (first-person singular present ensancho, first-person singular preterite ensanchei, past participle ensanchado)

1. (rare) to widen

   Synonym: anchear

   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 61:

     se o Cauallo for nouo deue comer eruas et feo con orio et con outras qousas semellauelles, ou sen orio como herua et feo a auendo, ca estas coussas ensancham et allargan o uentre

     if the horse is young, he must eat grasses and hay with barley and other similar things, or without barely, grass and hay if there is some, because these things widen and expand the belly

• ancho

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “ensanch”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• “ensanchar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “ensanchar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
• “ensanchar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin examplāre, from Latin amplus.

• IPA^(key): /ensanˈt͡ʃaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: en‧san‧char

ensanchar (first-person singular present ensancho, first-person singular preterite ensanché, past participle ensanchado)

1. to widen, expand

   Synonyms: agrandar, ampliar, extender

• “ensanchar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014