rozar

• roçar (Reintegrationist)

From Old Galician-Portuguese roçar, from Vulgar Latin *ruptiāre, from Latin ruptus (“broken”). Compare Portuguese roçar and Spanish rozar.

• Rhymes: -aɾ

rozar (first-person singular present rozo, first-person singular preterite rocei, past participle rozado)

1. to break up a field

   Synonym: cavar

2. to slash and burn a field

   Synonyms: cachar, estivar

3. to clean or mow brambles and bushes

   Synonym: desbravar

4. to rub
5. to skim

• roza
• Roza
• Rozada
• Rozadas
• Rozadela
• Rozadelas
• Rozas

• romper
• roto

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “roça”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “rozar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “rozar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “rozar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *ruptiāre, from Latin ruptus (“broken”). Compare Portuguese roçar.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /roˈθaɾ/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /roˈsaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ro‧zar

rozar (first-person singular present rozo, first-person singular preterite rocé, past participle rozado)

1. to clear or scrape land

   Synonyms: desmatar, desbrozar, clarear

2. to graze, to brush (touch lightly and briefly)
   • 1904, Luis Ruiz Contreras, translating Anatole France, Thaïs. La cortesana de Alejandría, chapter IV:

     la tela de un vestido de mujer que roza el suelo al andar

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. (figurative) to border (on) (be close to)

   un salario que roza los mil euros ― a salary bordering on a thousand euros

   roza la perfección ― it borders on perfection

   El descuento roza el 40%. ― The discount is close to 40%.

   • 2020 July 16, “Una sanitaria en L’Hospitalet de Llobregat: “El ambulatorio roza el colapso, peor que en abril””, in El País‎:

     “Estamos rozando el colapso”, advierte Gemma Hernández, la jefa de servicio del ambulatorio.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “rozar”, 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