espreitar
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Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Obscure. From Old Galician-Portuguese espreitar, itself perhaps from Old Occitan espleitar (“to exploit”), or either from Latin spectāre (“to observe”),[1][2] or more likely explicitare.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]espreitar (first-person singular present espreito, first-person singular preterite espreitei, past participle espreitado)
- (transitive) to peek at, to peer, to skulk
- (intransitive) to lurk
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of espreitar
Reintegrated conjugation of espreitar (See Appendix:Reintegrationism)
1Less recommended.
Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “espreitar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “espreitar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “espreitar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- “espreitar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “espreitar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “plazo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Gredos
- ^ Rivas Quintas, Eligio (2015). Dicionario etimolóxico da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Tórculo. →ISBN, s.v. espreitar.
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese espreitar, probably from Vulgar Latin *explicitāre, frequentative of explicāre.
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: es‧prei‧tar
Verb
[edit]espreitar (first-person singular present espreito, first-person singular preterite espreitei, past participle espreitado)
- (transitive) to peek at; to peer (to observe while hidden)
- (intransitive) to lurk (to move about in hiding)
- (transitive) to analyse; to examine (to inspect carefully or critically)
- Synonyms: analisar, examinar, investigar
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of espreitar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
See also
[edit]Categories:
- Galician terms with unknown etymologies
- Galician terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Galician terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Galician terms borrowed from Old Occitan
- Galician terms derived from Old Occitan
- Galician terms inherited from Latin
- Galician terms derived from Latin
- Galician terms with IPA pronunciation
- Galician lemmas
- Galician verbs
- Galician verbs ending in -ar
- Galician transitive verbs
- Galician intransitive verbs
- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese 4-syllable words
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese verbs
- Portuguese verbs ending in -ar
- Portuguese transitive verbs
- Portuguese intransitive verbs