engolir
Meaning
- (transitive) to swallow, to consume food
- (transitive) to swallow, to consume food
- (colloquial,transitive) to swallow, to believe, to accept
- (transitive) to fail to pronounce
Frequency
Hyphenated as
en‧go‧lir
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ẽ.ɡoˈli(ʁ)/
Etymology
From gola, or from an Old Galician-Portuguese engolir, from a Vulgar Latin *ingullīre, from Latin gula.
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