cercenar
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin circināre (“to make round”). Compare Portuguese cercear.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /θeɾθeˈnaɾ/ [θeɾ.θeˈnaɾ] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
- IPA(key): /seɾseˈnaɾ/ [seɾ.seˈnaɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: cer‧ce‧nar
Verb
[edit]cercenar (first-person singular present cerceno, first-person singular preterite cercené, past participle cercenado)
- (transitive, also figurative) to curtail, cut, sever, cut short
- 1637, Baltasar Gracián, “Primor XI”, in El héroe:
- Prosperidad muy aprisa, atropellándose unas a otras las felicidades, siempre fue sospechosa; porque suele la fortuna cercenar del tiempo lo que acumula del favor.
- Quick prosperity, with joyous moments tripping over each other, was always suspicious; because fortune tends to cut off from time what it accumulates from favor.
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of cercenar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of cercenar
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “cercenar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
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