# laminar
## English
### Etymology

From Latin lamina.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlæmɪnə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Adjective

laminar (not comparable)
* Of fluid motion, smooth and regular, flowing as though in different layers.
** 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:On the wall, in an ornate fixture of darkening bronze, a gas jet burned, laminar and gently singing — adjusted to what scientists of the last century called a "sensitive flame": invisible at the base, as it issues from the orifice, fading upward into smooth blue light that hovers several inches above...
** 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses:The laminar bands of color to the west bleeding out under the hammered clouds. A sudden violet-colored hooding of the earth.
* In, or consisting of, thin plates or layers.
** (electronics) In the form of thin flat electronic circuits, usually flexible
** (anatomy) Describing the layer of capillaries in the choroid of the eye

#### Derived terms

* bilaminar
* colaminar
* interlaminar
* intralaminar
* laminar flow
* laminar flow hood
* laminarise
* laminarity
* laminarize
* laminarly
* laminary
* multilaminar
* nonlaminar
* plurilaminar
* prelaminar
* retrolaminar
* sublaminar
* supralaminar
* translaminar
* trilaminar
* unilaminar

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* alarmin, malarin, railman

## Catalan
### Etymology 1

From làmina +‎ -ar.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [lə.miˈnar]
* IPA: (Balearic) [lə.miˈna]
* IPA: (Valencia) [la.miˈnaɾ]

#### Adjective

laminar m or f (masculine and feminine plural laminars)
* laminar, laminary, laminate

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [lə.miˈna]
* IPA: (Valencia) [la.miˈnaɾ]

#### Verb

laminar (first-person singular present lamino, first-person singular preterite laminí, past participle laminat)
* (transitive) to laminate

##### Derived terms

* laminació
* laminador
* laminat
* laminatge

### Further reading

* “laminar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /la.miˈna(ʁ)/ [la.miˈna(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /la.miˈna(ʁ)/ [la.miˈna(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /la.miˈna(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /la.miˈna(ʁ)/ [la.miˈna(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /la.miˈna(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /lɐ.miˈnaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /lɐ.miˈnaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /lɐ.miˈna.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: la‧mi‧nar

### Adjective

laminar m or f (plural laminares)
* laminar

### Verb

laminar (first-person singular present lamino, first-person singular preterite laminei, past participle laminado)
* to laminate

#### Conjugation

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

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French laminaire.

### Adjective

laminar m or n (feminine singular laminară, masculine plural laminari, feminine and neuter plural laminare)
* laminar

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

From lámina +‎ -ar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lamiˈnaɾ/ [la.miˈnaɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: la‧mi‧nar

### Adjective

laminar m or f (masculine and feminine plural laminares)
* laminar

### Verb

laminar (first-person singular present lamino, first-person singular preterite laminé, past participle laminado)
* (transitive) to laminate

#### 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.

#### Derived terms

* laminación
* laminado
* laminador

### Further reading

* “laminar”, 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