encastar

From earlier encastrar, from Late Latin incastrāre, from castrō (“to prune”). Cognate with Italian incastrare (“to insert, embed”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əŋ.kəsˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [eŋ.kasˈtaɾ]

encastar (first-person singular present encasto, first-person singular preterite encastí, past participle encastat)

1. (transitive) to insert, to embed
2. (figurative, transitive) to plant, to press up against
   • 1965, Jaume Berenguer Amenós, Alexis Zorbàs:

     Un vell, que vorejava la seixantena, molt alt, magre, d'ulls esbatanats, tenia encastat el nas al vidre i em mirava.

     An old man, verging on sixty, very tall, thin, wide-eyed, had his nose pressed to the glass and watched me.

• encast
• encastat

• “encastar”, 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

encastar (first-person singular present encasto, first-person singular preterite encasté, past participle encastado)

1. to crossbreed (cattle) to improve its cast
   • 1856, Fernando Amor, Estudios que sobre la Agricultura en sus varias aplicaciones:

     200 merinos españoles fueron llevados tambien en 1776 á Francia, los que encastando con los del pais produjeron individuos de lana tan fina

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “encastar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024