rozar

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Galician

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /roˈθしーたaɾ/, (western) /roˈsaɾ/

Verb

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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
    • 1455, María del Carmen Sánchez Carrera, editor, El Bajo Miño en el siglo XV. El espacio y los hombres, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 336:
      primeiramente que lle roçasen toda enderredor osilvar e mato hua braça que sobra sobre a dita vinna e mays en fondo dela apo quanto que estava muyto rara e em outros lugares que a ontrechatasem ou encasasem e que aestes chantamentos ou encasamentos que lle deytasen tres carros desterco e por quanto non fora arrendada que a cavasen toda en este mes de ianeiro primeiro que ven, sendo primeiramente rosado todo enderredor e o silvar e mato que sae por cima da dita vinna e de mays que daqui endeante desen cada vinna em cada hun anno duas cavas en sua sazon
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  4. to rub
  5. to skim

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Spanish

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (Spain) /roˈθしーたaɾ/ [roˈθしーたaɾ]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /roˈsaɾ/ [roˈsaɾ]
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Syllabification: ro‧zar

Verb

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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
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  3. (figurative) to border (on) (be close to)
    un salario que roza los mil eurosa salary bordering on a thousand euros
    roza la perfecciónit 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[1]:
      “Estamos rozando el colapso”, advierte Gemma Hernández, la jefa de servicio del ambulatorio.
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