trempar

Inherited from Latin temperāre (“to temper”). Doublet of temprar and temperar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [tɾəmˈpa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [tɾemˈpaɾ]

trempar (first-person singular present trempo, first-person singular preterite trempí, past participle trempat); root stress: (Central, Valencian) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/

1. (transitive) to temper
2. (transitive) to cut (quills, feathers)
3. (music, transitive) to tune

   Synonym: temprar

4. (Mallorca, transitive) to dress, to season

   Synonym: amanir

5. (colloquial, intransitive) to become erect (of a penis), to get hard

   estar trempat ― to have a hard-on

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

trempar (present tense trempas, past tense trempis, future tense trempos, imperative trempez, conditional trempus)

1. (transitive) to steep, to soak, to drench

• trempita

Cognate with French tremper.

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trempar

1. to soak, wet