roncar

From Old Catalan roncar, from Latin rhonchāre, a verb based on rhonchus, borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥόγχος (rhónkhos, “snoring”).

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /roŋˈka/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ruŋˈka/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /roŋˈkaɾ/

roncar (first-person singular present ronco, past participle roncat)

1. to snore
2. to purr

• (purr): ronronejar

• ronc
• roncadissa
• roncador
• roncor

• “roncar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “roncar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese, from Latin rhonchāre, from rhonchus, from Ancient Greek ῥόγχος (rhónkhos, “snoring”).

roncar (first-person singular present ronco, first-person singular preterite ronquei, past participle roncado)

1. to snore
2. to roar

   Synonym: bruar

3. to grunt

   Synonyms: gruñir, roñar

4. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of roncar
5. first/third-person singular personal infinitive of roncar

• Note: ronc- are changed to ronqu- before front vowels (e).

• ronco
• roncón

• “rronco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “rronco” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “roncar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “roncar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “roncar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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roncar (Languedoc, Limousin)

1. to snore

   Synonym: ronflar

• Yves Lavalade, Dictionnaire d'usage occitan/français - Limousin, Marche, Périgord, Institut d'Estudis Occitans dau Lemosin, 2010, →ISBN; page 500
• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2016, page 572.

From Old Portuguese roncar, from Latin rhonchāre, from rhonchus, from Ancient Greek ῥόγχος (rhónkhos, “snoring”), of imitative origin.

• Hyphenation: ron‧car

roncar (first-person singular present ronco, first-person singular preterite ronquei, past participle roncado)

1. to snore (to breathe during sleep with harsh noises)

   Synonym: ressonar

2. to make harsh noises (such as the sound of a car’s engine)
3. to rumble (to make a low pitched noise)

From Old Spanish roncar, inherited from Latin rhonchāre, a verb based on rhonchus, borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥόγχος (rhónkhos, “snoring”).

• IPA^(key): /ronˈkaɾ/ [rõŋˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ron‧car

roncar (first-person singular present ronco, first-person singular preterite ronqué, past participle roncado)

1. to snore

• ronca
• roncador
• roncamente
• ronco
• ronquido
• ronquío

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