descobrir

Sentences
Meaning

  1. to discover (to find something for the first time)
  2. to find out
  3. to uncover (to remove something’s cover)

Opposite of
cobrir, encobrir
Frequency

A1
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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