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Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pilūc(i)cāre, ultimately from Latin pilāre (“remove hair”). The regular outcome in Catalan would have been *pelucar; the ⟨ll⟩ /ʎ/ was taken from pell (“skin, pelt”).
Pronunciation
Verb
pellucar (first-person singular present pelluco, first-person singular preterite pelluquí, past participle pellucat)
- (transitive) to pick at (food), to nibble
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References
- “pellucar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
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