enforcar

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /əm.foɾˈka/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /əm.furˈka/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /em.foɾˈkaɾ/

en- +‎ forca +‎ -ar

enforcar (first-person singular present enforco, past participle enforcat)

1. (transitive) to fork up (to gather using a pitchfork)
2. (transitive) to hang (to execute by hanging)

   Synonym: penjar

• enforcada
• enforcadura
• enforcall

en- +‎ forc +‎ -ar

enforcar (first-person singular present enforco, past participle enforcat)

1. (transitive) to string (to tie together on a line, as onions)

   Aquella tarda d'estiu vaig aprendre a enforcar alls.

   That summer afternoon I learned how to string garlic.

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

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese enforcar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin *infurcare, form furca.

• IPA^(key): [eɱfoɾˈkaɾ]

enforcar (first-person singular present enforco, first-person singular preterite enforcei, past participle enforquei)

1. (transitive) to hang (to execute by hanging)
   • c1295, R. Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 685:

     Et hũus dizem que o enforcou com̃o a falsario

     And some say that he hanged him as a falsifier

   • 1383, M. Romaní Martínez (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, IV, page 388:

     Et aynda vos damos o huzal que iat alende do castineiro dos enforcados em que façades cortina

     and we also give to you the heathland that is beyond the chestnut tree of the hanged ones to turn it into farmland

   Synonym: colgar

• Note: enforc- are changed to enforqu- before front vowels (e).

• “enforcar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “enfor” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “enforcar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “enforcar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

• enforchar (Limousin)

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enforcar (Languedoc)

1. (transitive) to mount (a bike)

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2016, page 258.

enforcar (first-person singular present enforco, first-person singular preterite enforquei, past participle enforcado)

1. to hang (i.e. execute by suspension by the neck)

enforcar (first-person singular present enforco, first-person singular preterite enforqué, past participle enforcado)

1. (archaic) to hang

• “enforcar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014