# exterminar
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin extermināre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [əks.tər.miˈna]
* IPA: (Valencia) [eks.teɾ.miˈnaɾ]

### Verb

exterminar (first-person singular present extermino, first-person singular preterite exterminí, past participle exterminat)
* (transitive) to exterminate

#### Related terms

* exterminador
* extermini

### Further reading

* “exterminar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “exterminar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “exterminar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “exterminar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin extermināre.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /is.teʁ.miˈna(ʁ)/ [is.teɦ.miˈna(h)], /es.teʁ.miˈna(ʁ)/ [es.teɦ.miˈna(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /is.teʁ.miˈna(ʁ)/ [is.teɦ.miˈna(h)], /es.teʁ.miˈna(ʁ)/ [es.teɦ.miˈna(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /is.teɾ.miˈna(ɾ)/, /es.teɾ.miˈna(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /iʃ.teʁ.miˈna(ʁ)/ [iʃ.teʁ.miˈna(χ)], /eʃ.teʁ.miˈna(ʁ)/ [eʃ.teʁ.miˈna(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /es.teɻ.miˈna(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /(i)ʃ.tɨɾ.miˈnaɾ/, /ɐjʃ.tɨɾ.miˈnaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /(i)ʃ.tɨɾ.miˈnaɾ/, /ɐjʃ.tɨɾ.miˈnaɾ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /(i)ʃ.tɨɾ.miˈnaɾ/, /ejʃ.tɨɾ.miˈnaɾ/
** (Central Portugal) IPA: /(i)ʃ.tɨɾ.miˈnaɾ/, /ejʃ.tɨɾ.miˈnaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /(i)ʃ.tɨɾ.miˈna.ɾi/, /eʃ.tɨɾ.miˈna.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: ex‧ter‧mi‧no

### Verb

exterminar (first-person singular present extermino, first-person singular preterite exterminei, past participle exterminado)
* (transitive) to exterminate

#### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese.

#### Related terms

* exterminador
* extermínio

### Further reading

* “exterminar”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
* “exterminar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
* “exterminar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
* “exterminar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* “exterminar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* “exterminar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin extermināre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /eɡsteɾmiˈnaɾ/ [eɣ̞s.t̪eɾ.miˈnaɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: ex‧ter‧mi‧nar

### Verb

exterminar (first-person singular present extermino, first-person singular preterite exterminé, past participle exterminado)
* (transitive) to exterminate

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

#### Related terms

* exterminación
* exterminador
* exterminio

### Further reading

* “exterminar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10