manducar

Learned borrowing from Latin mandūcāre. Doublet of menjar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [mən.duˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [man.duˈkaɾ]

manducar (first-person singular present manduco, first-person singular preterite manduquí, past participle manducat)

1. (colloquial) to eat, gobble, scoff

• manduca

• “manducar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “manducar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “manducar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “manducar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Probably borrowed from Latin mandūcāre. Doublet of manjar.

• IPA^(key): /manduˈkaɾ/ [mãn̪.d̪uˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: man‧du‧car

manducar (first-person singular present manduco, first-person singular preterite manduqué, past participle manducado)

1. (colloquial) to eat, munch, scoff

• comer

• “manducar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28