espreitar

Obscure. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese espreitar, itself perhaps from Old Occitan espleitar (“to exploit”), or either from Latin spectāre (“to observe”)[1][2], or more likely explicitare.

• IPA^(key): /espɾejˈtaɾ/

espreitar (first-person singular present espreito, first-person singular preterite espreitei, past participle espreitado)

1. (transitive) to peek at, to peer, to skulk
2. (intransitive) to lurk

• agaitar, aseitar, axexar, esculcar, espiar

• “espreitar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “espreitar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “espreitar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “espreitar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Old Portuguese espreitar, probably from Vulgar Latin *explicitāre, frequentative of explicāre.

• Hyphenation: es‧prei‧tar

espreitar (first-person singular present espreito, first-person singular preterite espreitei, past participle espreitado)

1. (transitive) to peek at; to peer (to observe while hidden)
2. (intransitive) to lurk (to move about in hiding)
3. (transitive) to analyse; to examine (to inspect carefully or critically)

   Synonyms: analisar, examinar, investigar

• espiar