vorcar

Galician

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese volcar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *volvicāre, from Latin volvō (“to roll”). Compare Spanish volcar, Catalan bolcar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [boɾˈkaɾ]

Verb

vorcar (first-person singular present vorco, first-person singular preterite vorquei, past participle vorcado)

1. (transitive) to upset, knock over, tip over, dump (to cause to flip over, from uppermost to bottom)

   Synonyms: envorcar, abocar

2. (intransitive or takes a reflexive pronoun) to overturn, tip over, capsize (to flip over; to rotate uppermost to bottom)

   Synonyms: envorcar, abocar

Conjugation

    Conjugation of vorcar (c-qu alternation)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (ti)	Third-person (el / ela / Vde.)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / Vdes.)
Infinitive
Impersonal	vorcar
Personal	vorcar	vorcares	vorcar	vorcarmos	vorcardes	vorcaren
Gerund
	vorcando
Past participle
Masculine	vorcado			vorcados
Feminine	vorcada			vorcadas
Indicative
Present	vorco	vorcas	vorca	vorcamos	vorcades	vorcan
Imperfect	vorcaba	vorcabas	vorcaba	vorcabamos	vorcabades	vorcaban
Preterite	vorquei	vorcaches	vorcou	vorcamos	vorcastes	vorcaron
Pluperfect	vorcara	vorcaras	vorcara	vorcaramos	vorcarades	vorcaran
Future	vorcarei	vorcarás	vorcará	vorcaremos	vorcaredes	vorcarán
Conditional	vorcaría	vorcarías	vorcaría	vorcariamos	vorcariades	vorcarían
Subjunctive
Present	vorque	vorques	vorque	vorquemos	vorquedes	vorquen
Imperfect	vorcase	vorcases	vorcase	vorcásemos	vorcásedes	vorcasen
Future	vorcar	vorcares	vorcar	vorcarmos	vorcardes	vorcaren
Imperative
Affirmative		vorca	vorque	vorquemos	vorcade	vorquen
Negative (non)		non vorques	non vorque	non vorquemos	non vorquedes	non vorquen

Related terms

• envorcar
• revorquillar
• vorquillón

 

References

• Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “volcar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “volca”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• “vorcar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “vorcar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.