pregar

Meaning

1. to nail (employ a nail or similar object as a fastener)
2. to stare

Hyphenated as

pre‧gar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɾeˈɡa(ʁ)/

Etymology

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.