Romanian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin *expanticāre (to burst) (compare Aromanian spãntic, spãnticari, Venetan spantegar (to bust; scatter, sprinkle), Calabrian spantecare (to open), Abruzzese spandecà (annoy, bother, torture), from Latin pantices (bowels), plural of pantex; cf. pântece.

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Verb

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a spinteca (third-person singular present spintecă, past participle spintecat) 1st conjugation

  1. to rip, split, cleave, rend, cut
    Synonym: despica

Conjugation

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