trempar

Inherited from Latin temperāre (“to temper”). Doublet of temprar and temperar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [tɾəmˈpa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [tɾemˈpaɾ]

trempar (first-person singular present trempo, first-person singular preterite trempí, past participle trempat); root stress: (Central, Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/

1. (transitive) to temper
2. (transitive) to cut (quills, feathers)
3. (music, transitive) to tune

   Synonym: temprar

4. (Mallorca, transitive) to dress, to season

   Synonym: amanir

5. (colloquial, intransitive) to become erect (of a penis), to get hard

   estar trempat ― to have a hard-on

• “trempar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “trempar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “trempar”, 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

trempar (present tense trempas, past tense trempis, future tense trempos, imperative trempez, conditional trempus)

1. (transitive) to steep, to soak, to drench

• trempita

Cognate with French tremper.

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trempar

1. to soak, wet