desplegar

Meaning

to deploy, unfold

Concepts

unfold

spread

deploy

unroll

unfurl

develop

open

extend

spread out

unwrap

clarify

reveal

stretch

turn on

advance

promote

account

account for

construe

explain

grow

increase

raise

field

evolve

expand

open up

splay

display

tauten

distribute

stretch out

mount

Hyphenated as

des‧ple‧gar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/despleˈɡaɾ/

Etymology

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