pregar
- to nail (employ a nail or similar object as a fastener)
- to stare
Opposite of
despregar
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/pɾeˈɡa(ʁ)/
Etymology
In summary
From Old Galician-Portuguese pregar, a semi-learned term taken from Latin plicāre (“to fold”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to plait, to weave”). See also chegar, an inherited doublet, and the borrowing plicar.
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