pegamento

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin picāre (“smear with pitch”) + Spanish suffix -mento, from Latin -mentum.

Noun

pegamento m (plural pegamentos)

glue (substance) (synthetic)
Synonyms: (especially in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama, Peru, Uruguay) goma, (Colombia) pegante, (Puerto Rico, Venezuela) pega
(figurative) glue

Usage notes

For natural glue paste made from horse hooves, use cola. Pegamento generally refers to synthetically-produced glue.

Derived terms

pegamento en barra (“glue stick”) (Mexico, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru)
barra de pegamento (“glue stick”) (Spain)
barrita de pegamento (“glue stick [for a glue gun]”)

Related terms

Further reading

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

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