estrullar

Alternative forms

• estruchar (western Galician)

Etymology

14th century. From Vulgar Latin *extroculāre, from *extorculāre, from Latin ex torculum. The alternative form, estruchar, directly from *extorculāre.^[1]

Cognate with Spanish estrujar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /estɾuˈʎaɾ/

Verb

estrullar (first-person singular present estrullo, first-person singular preterite estrullei, past participle estrullado)

1. to press, to crush, to squeeze
   • 1390, José Luís Pensado Tomé (ed.), Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I. Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 19:

     Entõ leuãtou hũu dos fariseus hũu pao de ferro que tomou et doulle cõ el tã grãde ferida na cabeça et estrulloulle todo los meolos et deitoullos fora

     Then, one of the Pharisees took one rod of iron, and he raised it and caused him with it such a large wound in the head, and he crushed his brain and took them out

   Synonyms: esmagar, machucar

2. to scrub

References

• “estrullar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “estrul” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “estrullar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “estrullar” in Santamarina, Antón (coord.): Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• “estrullar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• “estruchar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.