coger
- to take, catch, hold, to get, to seize
- to pick, harvest
- to fish
- to seize, arrest; to overtake
- to get (a joke)
- to collect
- (Latin-America, vulgar) to have sex, to fuck, to bang
- (Spain) to imitate, learn
- (Spain) to choose (a direction, route, when driving or walking)
- (Spain) to turn to (when driving or walking)
- (Spain) to board (means of transportation)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
co‧ger
Pronounced as (IPA)
/koˈxeɾ/
Etymology
In summary
Inherited from Latin colligere (“to collect, to gather”). Cognate with Portuguese colher, French cueillir, Sicilian cògghiri, and also with English cull, coil, college, and collect. Compare also the borrowed doublet colegir. Not related to Latin cōgere, coagere (“to assemble”).
Related words
take hold of
grab onto
catch hold of
vergar
apoderarse de
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