quebrar
Spanish
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) to break, to snap, to shatter i.e. to smash or rupture
- (transitive) to break often in legal contexts
- (transitive) to bend, flex or twist
- (intransitive) to fail; to go broke; to become bankrupt; to go out of business; to crash, to go bust, to go under used in political, economic and business/financial/investment contexts
- (intransitive) to break up
- (intransitive) to kill
- (reflexive) to crack, to break, to shatter putting the onus on the thing cracking itself, absolving any sentient subject of responsibility
- (reflexive) to crack, to break e.g. crack under pressure, break after interrogation
Etymology
Inherited from Latin crepāre (creak, crack) derived from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂-.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱorh₂-
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- crevasse English
- quebracho English
- cornix Latin
- crepo Latin
- crepāre Latin
- crepātūra Latin
- querquedula Latin
- crepare Italian
- quebracho Italian
- crevasse French
- crevar Spanish, Castilian
- hacha Spanish, Castilian
- quebracho Spanish, Castilian
- quebradero Spanish, Castilian
- quebrador Spanish, Castilian
- resquebrajar Spanish, Castilian
- *ḱorh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- quebracho Portuguese
- *hrabnaz Proto-Germanic
- crever Old French
- crăpa Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- quebrar Old Portuguese
- crevâ Friulian
- crepur Dalmatian
- crebar Aragonese