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apegar
apegar
Portuguese
Verb
apegar (first-person singular present indicative apego, past participle apegado)
- to stick, glue, cling (to)
- to infect, contaminate
Conjugation
Conjugation of the Portuguese -ar verb apegar
Spanish
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *appicāre, from Latin picāre (“smear with pitch”), from pix (“pitch”).
Verb
apegar (first-person singular present apego, first-person singular preterite apegué, past participle apegado)
- (obsolete) to glue
- (takes a reflexive pronoun, with preposition a) to become devoted, to become attached
Synonyms
- (to glue): pegar