mossegar

Inherited from Late Latin morsicāre, derived from Latin mordēre (“to bite”). Compare Spanish moscar (“to hollow out”).

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /mo.səˈɡa/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /mu.səˈɡa/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /mo.seˈɡaɾ/

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• Homophone: mossegà
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

mossegar (first-person singular present mossego, past participle mossegat)

1. (transitive) to bite (seize or cut by clamping the teeth)
2. (figurative, transitive) to run down, to trash
3. (colloquial, transitive) to gouge (make excessive profit off of)

• mossega
• mossegada
• mossegador

• mos (“bite, mouthful”)

• “mossegar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mossegar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “mossegar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mossegar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

mossegar (first-person singular present mossego, first-person singular preterite mosseguei, past participle mossegado)

1. (transitive) Alternative form of morsegar
2. inflection of mossegar:
   1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive
   2. first/third-person singular personal infinitive