Catalan–English dictionary

estibar

To impart (something) gratuitously; to present (something) to someone or something, especially as a gift or an honour; to confer, to give, to accord; to render.

estic

(hockey) The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.

estigi

(Greek mythology) Of, by or relating to the river Styx in Greek mythology.

Estígia

(Greek mythology) The river, in Hades, over which the souls of the dead are ferried by Charon.

estigmatitzar

(transitive) To characterize as disgraceful or ignominious; to mark with a stigma or stigmata.

estil

An object such as a pillar or a rod that is used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it, especially the pointer on a sundial. [from mid 16th c.]

estil de vida

A style of living that reflects the attitudes and values of a person or group.

estilística

(linguistics) The study of literary style, and how it changes within different contexts.

estima

Assessment, estimation, or regard; especially; favourable estimation or regard.

estimació

Assessment, estimation, or regard; especially; favourable estimation or regard.

estimada

Often used as an affectionate term of address: a person who is very dear to one.

estimar

(usually, transitive, sometimes, _, intransitive, stative) To have a strong affection for (someone or something).

estimar-se més

(transitive) To be in the habit of choosing something rather than something else; to favor; to like better. [from 14th c.]

estimat

Much loved, dearly loved.

estimulador

Something that promotes activity, interest, or enthusiasm.

estimulant

That entices; alluring; attractive; charming

estipendi

(often in plural) An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour.

estípit

The stem of a mushroom, kelp, etc.

estípula

(botany) A basal appendage of a typical leaf of a flowering plant, usually appearing paired beside the petiole although sometimes absent or highly modified.

estirabot

(slang, uncountable) Stupid talk or writing; nonsense.

estirada

(sports) A deliberate fall after a challenge.

estirar

(transitive) To lengthen by pulling.

estirat

stretched

estirp

(by extension) Lineage; family; ancestry.

estiu

One of four seasons, traditionally the second, marked by the longest and typically hottest days of the year due to the inclination of the Earth and thermal lag. Typically regarded as spanning the months of June, July, and August in the Northern Hemisphere and the months of December, January and February in the Southern Hemisphere.

estiuejar

(intransitive) To spend the summer, as in a particular place on holiday.

Estix

(Greek mythology) The river, in Hades, over which the souls of the dead are ferried by Charon.

estoc

A slender, straight, sharply pointed sword (double-edged, single-edged or edgeless), designed predominantly for thrusting; used during the Renaissance period of Europe for civilian duelling

estocada

(fencing) An attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point.

estocafix

A cod (or similar fish) having been cut open and cured in the open air without salt.

estocàstic

Random, randomly determined.

Estocolm

A municipality, the capital and largest city of Sweden; the county seat of Stockholm County, Sweden.

estofat

(uncountable, countable) A dish cooked by stewing. [from 18th c.]

estoic

(philosophy) Proponent of stoicism, a school of thought, from in 300 B.C.E. up to about the time of Marcus Aurelius, who holds that by cultivating an understanding of the logos, or natural law, one can be free of suffering.

estoica

A person indifferent to pleasure or pain.

estoïcisme

A school of philosophy popularized during the Roman Empire that emphasized reason as a means of understanding the natural state of things, or logos, and as a means of freeing oneself from emotional distress.

estol

A group of vessels or vehicles.

estoma

(botany) One of the tiny pores in the epidermis of a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor pass.

estómac

(archaic) The stomach, especially of an animal.

estomacar

To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.

estona

An uncertain duration of time, a period of time.

Estònia

A country in northeastern Europe, on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea. Official name: Republic of Estonia.

estoniana

Of, from, or pertaining to the country of Estonia, its people or their language.

estor

A sheer curtain or fabric.

estora

A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering.

estorament

The feeling or experience of being astonished; great surprise.

estorat

(intransitive) To be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel; often followed by at.

estordit

Slowed or weakened, as by drink, sleepiness, etc.

estornell

A family, Sturnidae, of passerine birds.

estovalles

A cloth used to cover and protect a table, especially for a dining table.

estovar

(transitive) To make something soft or softer.

estrada

A raised platform in a room for a high table, a seat of honour, a throne, or other dignified occupancy, such as ancestral statues; a similar platform supporting a lectern, pulpit, etc., which may be used to speak from. [from c. 1800.]

estrafolari

Strangely unconventional; highly unusual and different from common experience, often in an extravagant, fantastic, and/or conspicuous way.

estragó

A perennial herb, the wormwood species Artemisia dracunculus, from Europe and parts of Asia.

estrall

(countable, uncountable) Damage, harm, hurt, injury.

estrambòtic

Greatly different from common experience; bizarre, outrageous, strange. [from late 16th c.]

estranger

(rare, Scotland) Countries or lands abroad. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]

estrangera

Located outside a country or place, especially one's own.

estrangulació

The act of strangling or the state of being strangled.

estrany

A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.

estranya

A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.

estranyament

In a peculiar manner; strangely; unusually.

estranyesa

(particle physics) One of the quantum numbers of subatomic particles, depending upon the relative number of strange quarks and anti-strange quarks.

Estrasburg

The capital city of Bas-Rhin department, France; the capital city of the region of Grand Est; located in the historic region of Alsace, near the border with Germany and at various historical points a part of Germany.

estratagema

A plot or secret, devious plan.

estrateg

A person who devises strategies.

estratègicament

In a strategic manner.

estratosfera

(meteorology) The region of the uppermost atmosphere where the temperature increases along with the altitude due to the absorption of solar ultraviolet radiation by ozone.

estrebada

A sudden, vigorous pull (sometimes defined as mass times jerk, or rate of change of force).

estrella de mar

Any of various echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach.

estremir-se

(intransitive) To shake nervously, often from fear or horror.

estrena

The first showing of a film, play or other form of entertainment, often held as a special event with celebrity guests.

estrenar

(intransitive) Of a film or play, to play for the first time.

estrènyer

Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger.

estrep

A board or small raised platform on which to support or rest the feet, such as that found in a carriage.

estrès

(uncountable) Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal.

estressant

Irritating; causing stress.

estressar

(transitive) To apply emotional pressure to (a person or animal).

estressat

Suffering stress (either physical or mental).

estret

Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.

estreta

Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.

estretament

Closely; by a narrow margin.

estria

(architectural element, firearms) A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.

estriació

The action of marking with a stria.

estribord

The righthand side of a ship, boat or aircraft when facing the front, or fore or bow. Used to unambiguously refer to directions according to the sides of the vessel, rather than those of a crew member or object.

estrident

(of a person, thing, event, etc.) Noisy.

estridulació

A high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers make by rubbing certain body parts together.

estrijolar

(transitive) To groom (a horse); to dress or rub down a horse with a curry comb.

estripar

(transitive) To eviscerate.

estroboscopi

Instrument for studying or observing periodic movement by rendering a moving body visible only at regular intervals.

estrofa

(poetry) A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse.

estrogen

(steroid hormone) Any of a group of steroids that are secreted by the ovaries and function as female sex hormones.

estrop

(nautical) A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.

estruç

(ornithology) A large flightless bird of the order Struthioniformes.

estructura

(bowling) A set of balls whose results are added together for scoring purposes. Usually two balls, but only one ball in the case of a strike, and three balls in the case of a strike or a spare in the last frame of a game.

estructural

Of, relating to, or having structure.

estructuralment

In terms of structure.

estructurar

(transitive) To give structure to; to arrange.

estructurat

Having structure; organized.

estuari

A coastal water body where ocean tides and river water merge, resulting in a brackish water zone.

estuc

A plaster that is used to coat interior or exterior walls, or used for mouldings.

estudiant

A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship.

estudiar

To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.

estudiós

A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.

estufa

(dated) A house or room artificially warmed or heated.

estupefacte

Unable to act or respond; dazed; shocked.

estupefaent

A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine.

estúpid

(pejorative) A stupid person; a blockhead or dullard.

estúpida

A stupid person; a fool.

estúpidament

In a stupid manner.

estupidesa

(often, in plural) A ludicrous gesture or act; ridiculous behaviour; caper.

esturió

Any marine or freshwater fish of the family Acipenseridae that are prized for their roe and are endemic to temperate seas and rivers of the northern hemisphere, especially central Eurasia.

esturió beluga

A fish, Huso huso, that is a source of caviar, which is found in the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.

esvair-se

(intransitive) To disappear quickly; to vanish; to fleet.

esvalot

An agitated disturbance or a hubbub.

esvanir-se

(intransitive) To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.

esvàstica

(countable) A cross with arms of equal length all bent halfway along at a 90° angle to the right or to the left, used as a religious symbol by various ancient and modern civilizations, but now mainly seen and used in the West (with arms angled to the right) as a symbol of Nazism and fascism.

esvelt

Thin; slim.

esverament

A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.

et

Forming diminutive nouns.

eta

Forming diminutive nouns.

etanol

(organic compound) A simple aliphatic alcohol formally derived from ethane by replacing one hydrogen atom with a hydroxyl group: CH3-CH2-OH.

etapa

A phase.

etc.

And so on: used to note that the rest of a list or piece of information has been left out on the assumption that it is similar or already known.

Èter

(Greek god) One of the Greek primordial deities who was the personification of light, brother-husband of Hemera and grandson of Chaos.

etern

Lasting forever; unending.

eternal

Lasting forever; unending.

eternament

For eternity; forever.

eternitat

(uncountable) Existence without end, infinite time.

ethos

(art) The traits in a work of art which express the ideal or typic character, as influenced by the ethos (character or fundamental values) of a people, rather than emotional situations or individual character traits in a narrow sense; opposed to pathos.

èticament

In an ethical manner.

ètim

(linguistics, philology) The original or earlier form of an inherited or borrowed word, affix, or morpheme either from an earlier period in a language's development, from an ancestral language, or from a foreign language.

etimologia

(countable) An account of the origin and historical development of a word as presented in a dictionary or the like.

etíop

Of, from, or pertaining to Ethiopia, the Ethiopian people or the Ethiopian culture.

Etiòpia

A country in East Africa.

etiòpic

Of, from, or pertaining to Ethiopia, the Ethiopian people or the Ethiopian culture.

etiqueta

A name given to something or someone to categorise them as part of a particular social group.

etiquetar

(transitive, slang) To indicate or ascribe an attribute to.

etiquetatge

A set of labels applied to the various objects in a system, to packaged goods, and so on; the act or process of applying them.

ètnic

Of or relating to a group of people having common racial, ancestral, national, religious or cultural origins.

etnologia

(anthropology) The branch of anthropology that compares and analyzes different human cultures and the relationships between them.

etologia

(zoology) The scientific study of animalian behavior, especially that of nonhuman animals.

ets

The definite grammatical article that shows that the noun phrase that immediately follows it is definitely identifiable...

etzibar

To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to speak quickly or without thought; to divulge inconsiderately — commonly with out.

eucaliptus

Any of many trees, of genus Eucalyptus, native mainly to Australia.

eufòria

An exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism.

eufòric

Feeling great well-being or elation or intense happiness; characterized by euphoria

Eufrates

A river in the Middle East, 2780 kilometers in length, flowing southwest from Turkey, then southeast, and uniting with the Tigris before entering the Persian Gulf. It forms the Western edge of classical Mesopotamia.

euga

An adult female horse.

eugenèsia

(sociology, biology) A social philosophy or practice which advocates the improvement of human hereditary qualities through selective breeding, either by encouraging people with superior genetic qualities to reproduce (positive eugenics), or discouraging people with inferior genetic qualities from reproducing (negative eugenics), or by technological means.