parafina
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Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pa‧ra‧fi‧na
Noun
parafina f (plural parafinas)
- paraffin (all senses)
Related terms
Further reading
- “parafina” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “parafina”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
- “parafina”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French paraffiner.
Pronunciation
Verb
a parafina (third-person singular present parafinează, past participle parafinat) 1st conjugation
- to paraffin
Conjugation
conjugation of parafina (first conjugation, -ez- infix)
| infinitive | a parafina | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | parafinând | ||||||
| past participle | parafinat | ||||||
| number | singular | plural | |||||
| person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |
| indicative | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
| present | parafinez | parafinezi | parafinează | parafinăm | parafinați | parafinează | |
| imperfect | parafinam | parafinai | parafina | parafinam | parafinați | parafinau | |
| simple perfect | parafinai | parafinași | parafină | parafinarăm | parafinarăți | parafinară | |
| pluperfect | parafinasem | parafinaseși | parafinase | parafinaserăm | parafinaserăți | parafinaseră | |
| subjunctive | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
| present | să parafinez | să parafinezi | să parafineze | să parafinăm | să parafinați | să parafineze | |
| imperative | — | tu | — | — | voi | — | |
| affirmative | parafinează | parafinați | |||||
| negative | nu parafina | nu parafinați | |||||
Related terms
Further reading
- parafina in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Spanish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
parafina f (plural parafinas)
Etymology 2
Verb
parafina
- inflection of parafinar:
Further reading
- “parafina”, 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