colocar

Meaning

  1. to place
  2. to put
  3. to get in
  4. (reflexive,slang) to take drugs
  5. (slang,transitive) to intoxicate (stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol)

Frequency

C1
Hyphenated as
co‧lo‧car
Pronounced as (IPA)
/koloˈkaɾ/
Etymology

Borrowed from Latin collocāre (“place, put, assemble”). Compare the inherited doublet colgar. Cognate with English collocate and couch.

Cognate with English
English
collocate

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