polir - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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From Latin polīre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [puˈli]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [poˈliɾ]

polir (first-person singular present poleixo, first-person singular preterite polí, past participle polit)

1. to shine; to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding (often polish up)
2. to refine; remove imperfections

• màquina de polir
• poliment
• polit

• “polir” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “polir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “polir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “polir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Latin polīre (“to polish”).

• IPA^(key): /pɔ.liʁ/

polir

1. to shine; to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding (often polish up)
2. to refine; remove imperfections

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

• poli
• polissage

• → German: polieren

• “polir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Latin polīre (“to polish”).

• (Caipira) IPA^(key): /po.ˈli(ɹ)/
• (Northeastern) IPA^(key): /pɔ.ˈli(h)/, /pu.ˈli(h)/
• Hyphenation: po‧lir

polir (first-person singular present pulo, third-person singular present pule, first-person singular preterite poli, past participle polido)

1. to polish; to shine; to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding (often polish up)
2. to refine; remove imperfections

• “polir”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

polir (first-person singular present polo, first-person singular preterite polí, past participle polido)

1. Obsolete form of pulir.

• “polir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10