escurçar

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *excurtiare, from curtus (“short”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əs.kurˈsa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [es.kuɾˈsaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

escurçar (first-person singular present escurço, first-person singular preterite escurcí, past participle escurçat)

1. (transitive) to shorten, to shrink
2. (intransitive, pronominal) to become shorter, to shrink, to diminish

   Els dies s'escurcen. ― The days are growing shorter.

• escurçada
• escurçadura

• escurçó

• “escurçar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007