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henchir.

to swell, to fill something

7 characters2 syllables approx.Español language

Meaning & usage

verb/enˈt͡ʃiɾ/[ẽnʲˈt͡ʃiɾ]
  1. to swell, to fill something

    literary · transitive
  2. to fill (a job position)

    figuratively · obsolete · transitive
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Old Spanish fenchir, enchir, from Vulgar Latin *implīre, from Latin implēre. More information According to Coromines & Pascual, the initial f- in Old Spanish was likely due to phonetic and semantic similarities with finchar > modern hinchar. In dwindling use by the 16th century, henchir was increasingly limited to idioms, and they mention that Juan de Valdés complained about needing to use the verb in such expressions due to an easy confusion with hinchar, giving as an example De servidores leales se hinchen los ospitales, meaning 'the guesthouses are filled with loyal servants' (with henchir), but ambiguously also the nonsensical 'the guesthouses should be air-filled using loyal servants' (with hinchar).

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