desplegar

Catalan

Verb

desplegar (first-person singular present desplego, first-person singular preterite despleguí, past participle desplegat)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to unfold, to spread out

   Antonym: plegar

Derived terms

• desplegament

Further reading

• “desplegar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “desplegar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “desplegar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “desplegar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Spanish

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Late Latin displicāre, infinitive form of displicō (“I scatter”), from Latin dis- + plicō. Surface analysis: des- (“dis-”) +‎ plegar (“to fold”). Cognate with English deploy and display.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /despleˈɡaɾ/ [d̪es.pleˈɣ̞aɾ]

Verb

1. to deploy, unfold

   Antonyms: plegar, doblar

Derived terms

• desplegable
• despliegue

Further reading

• “desplegar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014