entercar

From en- +‎ terc +‎ -ar, from a pre-Romance source such as Proto-Celtic *terkos (“scarce, meagre”), from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”), compare Irish tearc (“meagre”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ən.tərˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [en.teɾˈkaɾ]

entercar (first-person singular present enterco, first-person singular preterite enterquí, past participle entercat); root stress: (Central, Balearic) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/

1. (transitive) to make stiff or taut
2. (pronominal) to become stiff or taut

• enterc
• entercament

• “entercar”, 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

entercar

1. only used in se ... entercar, syntactic variant of entercarse