pega

Sentences

Meaning

Concepts

Um
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surfista
🏄

masculino pega um pouco de ar de uma grande onda
👋

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A male surfer catches some air from a big wave.

pego

(transitive) to catch
(Brazil, transitive) to catch
(intransitive) to pick up
(Brazil, reflexive, slang, transitive) to engage in a romantic and/or sexual relationship with someone for one night or some short period of time
(Brazil, colloquial, reflexive, transitive) to fight, to beat up, to engage in a physical conflict
(intransitive, transitive) to stick, to glue
(colloquial, intransitive) to catch on
(Brazil, transitive) to catch, to take (a transport)
(intransitive) to start an engine, vehicle
(reflexive) to catch a disease
(impersonal, reflexive) to be contagious (of a disease)
(intransitive) to catch, take root

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpe.ɡɐ/

Inherited from Latin

pīca

Inherited from Latin

pedica

In summary

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese *pega, from Vulgar Latin peca, from Latin pīca (“magpie”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker; magpie”).