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Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lont͡ʃeˈaɾ/
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: lon‧che‧ar
Etymology 1
From loncha + -ear.
Verb
lonchear (first-person singular present loncheo, first-person singular preterite loncheé, past participle loncheado)
- to slice, slice up
Etymology 2
From lonche + -ear.
Verb
lonchear (first-person singular present loncheo, first-person singular preterite loncheé, past participle loncheado)(colloquial)
- (intransitive, Mexico, Nicaragua, Ecuador) to lunch
- (transitive, Mexico) to lunch on (to eat for lunch)
Conjugation
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Further reading
- “lonchear” in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, 2010.