vergar
Latin
Verb
vergarCategory:Latin non-lemma forms#VERGARCategory:Latin verb forms#VERGARCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#VERGARCategory:Pages with entries#VERGARCategory:Pages with 2 entries#VERGAR
Portuguese
Etymology
From verga (“rod, twig”) + -arCategory:Portuguese terms suffixed with -ar#VERGAR.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /veʁˈɡa(ʁ)/ [veɦˈɡa(h)]Category:Portuguese 2-syllable words#VERGARCategory:Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation#VERGAR
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /veɾˈɡa(ɾ)/Category:Portuguese 2-syllable words#VERGARCategory:Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation#VERGAR
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /veʁˈɡa(ʁ)/ [veʁˈɡa(χ)]Category:Portuguese 2-syllable words#VERGARCategory:Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation#VERGAR
- (Caipira) IPA(key): /veɻˈɡa(ɻ)/Category:Portuguese 2-syllable words#VERGARCategory:Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation#VERGAR
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /vɨɾˈɡaɾ/ [vɨɾˈɣaɾ]Category:Portuguese 2-syllable words#VERGARCategory:Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation#VERGAR
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /bɨɾˈɡaɾ/ [bɨɾˈɣaɾ]Category:Portuguese 2-syllable words#VERGARCategory:Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation#VERGAR
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /vɨɾˈɡa.ɾi/ [vɨɾˈɣa.ɾi]Category:Portuguese 3-syllable words#VERGARCategory:Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation#VERGAR
- Hyphenation: ver‧gar
Verb
vergar (first-person singular present vergo, first-person singular preterite verguei, past participle vergado)Category:Portuguese lemmas#VERGARCategory:Portuguese verbs#VERGARCategory:Portuguese verbs ending in -ar#VERGARCategory:Portuguese verbs with g-gu alternation#VERGARCategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#VERGARCategory:Pages with entries#VERGARCategory:Pages with 2 entries#VERGAR
- (transitiveCategory:Portuguese transitive verbs#VERGAR) to bow (to make something bend or curve)
- Verga a vara.
- Bend the rod.
- (intransitiveCategory:Portuguese intransitive verbs#VERGAR) to bow (to become bent or curved)
- A árvore vergou com o vento.
- The tree bent with the wind.
- (figurative, pronominal) to defer (to submit oneself) [with a ‘to someone/something’]
- O país vergou-se à força dos ventos.
- The country deferred to the force of the wind.
Conjugation
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:vergar.
Synonyms
Related terms
Further reading
- “vergar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “vergar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026