sostreure

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin subtrahere (to remove); adapted to inherited treure and with the first syllable altered by analogy with words like sosllevar and soscavar, which contain a prefix derived from the archaic preposition sots.

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Verb

sostreure (first-person singular present sostrec or sostrac, first-person singular preterite sostraguí, past participle sostret); root stress: (Central, Balearic) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/

  1. (transitive) to remove, to relieve, to take away
    Res no podrà sostreure a l’esser humà de les tristes condicions de la seva existència: patir i morir.
    Nothing will be able to relieve human beings of the sad conditions of their existence: to suffer and die.
  2. (arithmetic, transitive) to subtract
  3. (transitive) to steal
  4. (pronominal) to steal away, to get away (from a), to evade, to resist
    Em vaig poder sostreure a l'entorn hostil que hi havia.
    I was able to escape the hostile environment that was there.

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