cegar

cegar (first-person singular indicative present cego, past participle cegáu)

1. (transitive) to blind (make temporarily or permanently blind)

• ciegu

Inherited from Latin caecāre, a verb based on caecus 'blind' (adj.).

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /səˈɡa/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /seˈɡaɾ/

cegar (first-person singular present cego, past participle cegat)

1. (transitive) to blind
2. (transitive) to block off, obstruct
   • 1938, Lluís Nicolau d'Olwer, El pont de la mar blava:

     En aquests estanys, ara mig cegats per la sorra, va recolzar-se durant molts segles un dels més forts imperis comercials que mai han existit.

     In these pools, now half filled with sand, rested for several centuries one of the most powerful commercial empires which has ever existed.

• cegament
• encegar

• cec

• “cegar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

cegar (first-person singular present cego, first-person singular preterite ceguei, past participle cegado)

1. to blind

• Note: ceg- are changed to cegu- before front vowels (e).

From Old Portuguese cegar, from Latin caecāre (“to blind”), from caecus (“blind”).

• Homophone: segar
• Hyphenation: ce‧gar

cegar (first-person singular present cego, first-person singular preterite ceguei, past participle cegado)

1. (transitive) to blind, to cause blindness

Inherited from Latin caecāre, a verb based on caecus 'blind' (adj.).

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θeˈɡaɾ/ [θeˈɣ̞aɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /seˈɡaɾ/ [seˈɣ̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ce‧gar

cegar (first-person singular present ciego, first-person singular preterite cegué, past participle cegado)

1. (transitive) to blind
2. (intransitive, reflexive) to go blind

• cegador
• cegamiento

• ciego

• “cegar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014