estancar

Possibly from a Late Latin *stancō, derived by metathesis from stagnō, or from a Vulgar Latin *stanticō, from stāns (“standing”).

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /əs.təŋˈka/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /es.taŋˈkaɾ/

estancar (first-person singular present estanco, past participle estancat)

1. (transitive) to hold up, block, halt
2. (reflexive) to stagnate
3. (reflexive) to grind to a halt, come to a standstill

• estanc

• “estancar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Uncertain, compare Spanish, Catalan estancar and Old French estanchier.

• IPA^(key): [estaŋˈkaɾ]

estancar (first-person singular present estanco, first-person singular preterite estanquei, past participle estancado)

1. (transitive) to staunch (to stop the loss of blood)
   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 85:

     estas meezjnas para estanqar o sange non as deuen a amouer da chaga ataa o terçeiro dia

     these medicines used to staunch the blood must not be removed from the wound till the third day

   Synonym: estiñar

2. (of water) to detain, staunch, or hold back the flow of water

• Note: estanc- are changed to estanqu- before front vowels (e).

• “estancar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “estanqar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “estancar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “estancar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “estancar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Uncertain, compare Spanish estancar and Old French estanchier.

• Hyphenation: es‧tan‧car

estancar (first-person singular present estanco, first-person singular preterite estanquei, past participle estancado)

1. (transitive) to staunch (to stop the loss of blood)

   Synonym: vedar

2. (transitive, figurative) to staunch (to stop, check, or deter an action)
   • 1906, Raul Brandão, Os Pobres‎:

     Os pobres são como os rios. Estancam a sêde da terra, fazem inchar as raizes e crescer as arvores; acarretam; móem o pão nos moinhos. Eil-a a vida da terra. Todas as cathedraes se construíram da sua dôr; sem elles a vida pararia.

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3. (intransitive, takes a reflexive pronoun) to stop

   Synonym: parar

From Latin stagnum, cognate with Old French estanchier and thereby English stanch.

estancar (first-person singular present estanco, first-person singular preterite estanqué, past participle estancado)

1. (of water) to detain, staunch, or hold back the flow of water
2. to stall, suspend, or stop a project or business plan
3. to prohibit the free movement of merchandise
4. (reflexive) to stagnate

• “estancar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014