trillar

Inherited from Old Catalan trillar, from Latin trībulāre. Doublet of the borrowed tribular.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

trillar (first-person singular present trillo, first-person singular preterite trillí, past participle trillat)

1. (transitive) to thresh

• trillador
• trillaire

• trill

• “trillar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• trullar

From Old Galician-Portuguese trillar, from Vulgar Latin *triblāre, from syncopation of Latin tribulāre, present active infinitive of tribulō. Doublet of the borrowed tribular. Cognate with Portuguese trilhar, Spanish trillar, Catalan trillar.

• IPA^(key): /tɾiˈʎaɾ/

trillar (first-person singular present trillo, first-person singular preterite trillei, past participle trillado)

1. to thresh

   Synonym: mallar

2. to beat up; to bruise

   Synonyms: mallar, mazar

3. to jam (a finger) with a door, a drawer

   Vaste trillar os dedos coa porta. ― You are going to jam your fingers with the door.

4. (of the clothes moth or the woodworm) to eat clothes or wood
5. to crumble (bread into milk, soup)

   Synonyms: entrillar, migar

6. to mince

   Synonym: picar

• trilla
• trillo

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “trillar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “trillar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “trillar”, 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), “trillar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “trillar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Old Spanish , from Vulgar Latin *triblāre, from syncopation of Latin tribulāre. Doublet of the borrowed tribular.

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: tri‧llar

trillar (first-person singular present trillo, first-person singular preterite trillé, past participle trillado)

1. (transitive) to thresh
2. (transitive, figurative) to wear out, to overuse
3. (transitive) (of a person) to thrash, to beat up
4. (transitive) (of a path) to beat, to wear down

• “trillar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

trillar

1. present indicative of trilla