apostar

Significat

1. (archaic) to repair
2. (archaic) to prepare
3. (archaic) to adorn; to beautify
4. to dispose (to distribute and put in place)
5. to gut and clean fish for its preservation
6. to bet (to make a guess about the outcome of an event)
7. to bet (be quite certain of something)

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/aposˈtaɾ/

Etimologia

From Old Galician-Portuguese; probably from Vulgar Latin *appositāre, from Latin appositus (“appropriate; fit”), or from aposta (“bet”).