merendar
Meaning
- to have a snack, especially in the period between lunch and dinner
- (informal) to defeat in some game or competition
Translations
Frequency
Hyphenated as
me‧ren‧dar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/meɾenˈdaɾ/
Etymology
In summary
Inherited from Old Spanish merendar, from (rare) Late Latin merendāre (“to take a late lunch”), from Classical Latin merenda (“luncheon taken around tea-time”), from mereō (“to earn, deserve”).
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