estrelar

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from estrela (“star”). Cognate with Portuguese estrelar and Spanish estrellar.

• IPA^(key): [estɾeˈlaɾ]

estrelar (first-person singular present estrelo, first-person singular preterite estrelei, past participle estrelado)

1. (transitive) to cover with stars or to shape into a star
2. (transitive) to smash
3. (transitive, of eggs) to fry (eggs)

   Synonyms: fritir, frixir

4. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to crash

• estrelado
• estreladura
• estrelecer

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

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese. Compare Galician estrelar and Spanish estrellar.

• Hyphenation: es‧tre‧lar

estrelar (first-person singular present estrelo, first-person singular preterite estrelei, past participle estrelado)

1. (transitive) to cover with stars or to shape into a star
2. (transitive, of eggs) to fry (eggs)
3. (Brazil) to star (to perform in a play or film)

   Synonym: protagonizar

• ovo estrelado