esticar

Betekenis

1. (transitive) to stretch (lengthen by pulling)
2. (intransitive) to stretch (to be longer, as by pulling)
3. (colloquial,transitive) to extend
4. (colloquial,intransitive) to die

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/is.t͡ʃiˈka(ʁ)/

Etymologie

Probably borrowed from Old French estrikier (“to make longer, to stretch”); ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan (“to stretch”). Compare Galician estricar.