colocar

Borrowed from Latin collocare, present active infinitive of collocō (“place, put, assemble”). Compare the inherited doublet colgar.

colocar (first-person singular indicative present coloco, past participle colocáu)

1. to put, place
2. to tidy, tidy up

• collocar (obsolete)

Learned borrowing from Latin collocāre (“to place, to put, to assemble”). Compare the inherited doublet colgar.

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /kɔ.lɔˈka(h)/
• (Rural Central Brazil) IPA^(key): /ku.luˈka(ɹ)/
• Hyphenation: co‧lo‧car

colocar (first-person singular present coloco, first-person singular preterite coloquei, past participle colocado)

1. (transitive) to place; to put

   Coloca as chaves em cima da mesa, faz favor. ― Put the keys on the table, please.

   Synonyms: (more formal) pôr, (informal) botar

   Antonyms: tirar, retirar

2. (transitive) to put [in a situation]

   Não reclame, pois foi você mesmo que se colocou nessa situação. ― Don’t complain, you put yourself in this situation.

   Synonyms: pôr, deixar

3. (transitive) to hire; to employ

   Synonyms: (more common) empregar, contratar

4. (transitive) to invest (to commit capital in the hope of financial return)

   Synonyms: (more common) investir, aplicar

5. (usually takes a reflexive pronoun, transitive with em or entre (with a plural object)) to place (to earn a given spot in a competition’s result)

   Ele se colocou em último lugar na maratona. ― He got last place in the marathon.

   É praticamente impossível se colocar entre os três primeiros. ― It’s nearly impossible to place in the top three positions.

   Synonym: ganhar

6. (transitive) to put forth [a question]

   A entrevistadora colocou uma pergunta interessante. ― The interviewer put forth an interesting question.

7. inflection of colocar:
   1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive
   2. first/third-person singular personal infinitive

For quotations using this term, see Citations:colocar.

• LUFT, Celso Pedro. Microdicionário de língua portuguesa Luft. São Paulo, Brazil: Ática, 2000. →ISBN

Borrowed from Latin collocare, present active infinitive of collocō (“place, put, assemble”). Compare the inherited doublet colgar. Cognate with English collocate and couch.

• IPA^(key): /koloˈkaɾ/ [ko.loˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: co‧lo‧car

colocar (first-person singular present coloco, first-person singular preterite coloqué, past participle colocado)

1. to place
2. to put

   Synonym: poner

3. to get in

   No pude colocar palabras.

   I couldn't get a word in.

4. (reflexive, slang) to take drugs
5. (transitive, slang) to intoxicate (stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol)

• colocación

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