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Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin exfoliāre (“to strip of leaves”).
Pronunciation
Verb
exfoliar (first-person singular present exfolio, first-person singular preterite exfolií, past participle exfoliat)
- (transitive, reflexive) to split into scales or sheets
2010, Antoni Lacasa i Ruiz, Javier Lozano, Sorgint del mar:Durant l'explotació comercial, en exfoliar les lloses, aparegué una gran varietat de fòssils d'animals i de vegetals extraordinàriament preservats.- During the commercial exploitation, while exfoliating the flagstones, a great variety of extraordinarily preserved animal and vegetal fossils appeared.
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Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin exfoliāre (“to strip of leaves”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eɡsfoˈljaɾ/
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: ex‧fo‧liar
Verb
exfoliar (first-person singular present exfolio, first-person singular preterite exfolié, past participle exfoliado)
- (transitive) to exfoliate
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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