apegar
Portuguese
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Vulgar Latin *appicāre, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin picāre (“smear with pitch”), from pix (“pitch”).
Verb
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- to stick, glue, cling (to)
- to infect, contaminate
Conjugation
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Spanish
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *appicāre, from Latin picāre (“smear with pitch”), from pix (“pitch”).
Verb
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- (obsolete) to glue
- Synonym: pegar
- (takes a reflexive pronoun, with preposition a) to become devoted, to become attached
Conjugation
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Further reading
- “apegar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014