estrelar

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from estrela (“star”). Cognate with Portuguese estrelar and Spanish estrellar.

• IPA^(key): [estɾeˈlaɾ]

estrelar (first-person singular present estrelo, first-person singular preterite estrelei, past participle estrelado)

1. (transitive) to cover with stars or to shape into a star
2. (transitive) to smash
3. (transitive, of eggs) to fry (eggs)

   Synonyms: fritir, frixir

4. (pronominal) to crash

• estrelado
• estreladura
• estrelecer

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “estrelado”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “estrelad”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “estrelar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “estrelar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “estrelar”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2025
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “estrelar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese. Compare Galician estrelar and Spanish estrellar.

• Hyphenation: es‧tre‧lar

estrelar (first-person singular present estrelo, first-person singular preterite estrelei, past participle estrelado)

1. (transitive) to cover with stars or to shape into a star
2. (transitive, of eggs) to fry (eggs)
3. (Brazil) to star (to perform in a play or film)

   Synonym: protagonizar

• ovo estrelado