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Spanish
Etymology
From guillotina + -ar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ɡiʝotiˈnaɾ/
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Philippines) /ɡiʎotiˈnaɾ/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ɡiʃotiˈnaɾ/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ɡiʒotiˈnaɾ/
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: gui‧llo‧ti‧nar
Verb
guillotinar (first-person singular present guillotino, first-person singular preterite guillotiné, past participle guillotinado)
- to guillotine
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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