Meaning
- to discover (to find something for the first time)
- to find out
- to uncover (to remove something’s cover)
Concepts
deprive … of
deprive of
get a line
get word
Opposite of
cobrir, encobrir
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Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/des.koˈbɾi(ʁ)/
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese descobrir (“to find out”), from Late Latin discoperīre < discooperīre (“to expose”), from Latin dis- + cooperiō (“to cover wholly”). By surface analysis, des- + cobrir.
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