singrar

Galician

Alternative forms

• singlar

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese singrar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Old French singler (“to sail”), from Old Norse segl (“sail”), from Proto-Germanic *seglą (“sail”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siŋˈɡɾaɾ/

Verb

1. (nautical) to sail; to navigate
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 731:

     Et cõ grã coyta que auía, metíose sobre mar, cõ grandes cõpañas, porlo yr buscar, et tãto singlarõ, a rremos et a treu, ata que chegarõ alý hu el iazía soterrado

     Sorrowful, he went into the sea with a large army, for searching for him, and they navigated for a long time, on oars and sails, until they arrived there where he was buried

   Synonyms: marear, navegar

Related terms

• singradura

References

• Template:R:DDGM
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “singr”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “singl”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG
• “singrar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Portuguese

FWOTD – 22 October 2013

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Galician-Portuguese singrar, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French singler (“to sail”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse segl (“sail”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *seglą (“sail”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sĩ.ˈɡɾaɾ/
• IPA^(key): /sĩ.ˈɡɾa(ɾ)/, /sĩ.ˈɡɾa(ɹ)/

Verb

1. (now poetic) to sail; to cross the seas
   • 2002, Luiz Carlos de Oliveira Cerqueira, Quando houver nunca mais, Thesaurus, page 129:

     No dia em que você não mais singrar os mares não haverá o soprar das brisas e terrais e, na calmaria, os barcos não enfunarão velas.

     In the day when you no longer sail the seas there won’t be the blow of the breezes and nightly winds and, in the tranquillity, the boats won’t unfurl their sails.

2. (figurative) to thrive (to be successful)
   • 2002, Will Ferguson, Felicidade, Asa, page 91:

     Admitamos, é preciso uma dose desmesurada de vivacidade para singrar na área da publicidade.

     Let’s admit it, an immeasurable amount of vivacity is necessary to thrive in the field of advertising.

Synonyms

• (to sail): velejar
• (to thrive): medrar, prosperar

Related terms

• singra
• singrador
• singradura