vencer

Sentences
Meaning

  1. (ambitransitive) to win
  2. (transitive) to defeat, overcome
  3. (intransitive) to expire
  4. (intransitive) to be due

Opposite of
perder
Frequency

B1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/vẽˈse(ʁ)/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese vencer, from Latin vincere, from Proto-Italic *winkō, from Proto-Indo-European *wi-n-k-, nasal infix from *weyk- (“to overcome”).

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