tragar

Meaning

1. (transitive) to swallow (to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach)
2. (transitive) to swallow, consume, absorb (take (something) in so that it disappears)
3. (transitive) to gulp, swallow, devour (eat quickly and eagerly)
4. (pronominal,transitive) to buy into, fall for (easily believe something without questioning)
5. (pronominal,transitive) to stand, tolerate
6. (colloquial,proscribed) to eat

Hyphenated as

tra‧gar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɾaˈɡaɾ/

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *tragāre, possibly from Doric Greek τράγω (trágō), in which case cognate with Attic Greek τρώγω (trṓgō, “to eat, to swallow”). Alternatively, Coromines suggests an origin ultimately in dracō (“dragon”), via an attested tracō (“underground cavern”), in the sense of "that which swallows [things] up". Cognate with Catalan dragar, Aragonese, Galician, and Portuguese tragar.