espreitar
Meaning
- (transitive) to peek at; to peer (to observe while hidden)
- (intransitive) to lurk (to move about in hiding)
- (transitive) to analyse; to examine (to inspect carefully or critically)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
es‧prei‧tar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/is.pɾejˈta(ʁ)/
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese espreitar, probably from Vulgar Latin *explicitāre, frequentative of explicāre.
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