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apegar

apegar

Portuguese

Verb

apegar (first-person singular present indicative apego, past participle apegado)

  1. to stick, glue, cling (to)
  2. to infect, contaminate

Conjugation


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)

  1. (obsolete) to glue
  2. (takes a reflexive pronoun, with preposition a) to become devoted, to become attached

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