tragar

tragar (first-person singular indicative present trago, past participle tragáu)

1. to swallow (to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach)

Variant form of dragar.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /tɾəˈɡa/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /tɾaˈɡaɾ/

tragar (first-person singular present trago, past participle tragat)

1. (transitive) to swallow
2. (transitive) to devour

• tragador
• traganeu
• traga-sabres

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

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese tragar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria). Compare Portuguese tragar and Spanish tragar.

• IPA^(key): [tɾaˈɣaɾ]

tragar (first-person singular present trago, first-person singular preterite traguei, past participle tragado)

1. to swallow

   Synonym: engulir

• Note: trag- are changed to tragu- before front vowels (e).

• atragoar
• trago
• tragueira

• “tragar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “trag” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “tragar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “tragar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “tragar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Possibly from Latin tractus (“plundered, squandered, extracted”)

• Rhymes: -aɾ

tragar (first-person singular present trago, first-person singular preterite traguei, past participle tragado)

1. to gulp down
2. to quaff (drink with vigour, in large draughts)
3. to devour; to engulf (to surround or cover)
4. to stand; to withstand (to resist or endure something successfully)

   Synonyms: aguentar, aturar, suportar

5. to inhale smoke from a cigarette

• tragável

Probably from Latin draco (“dragon”) in the sense of one who swallows or devours. Or, possibly from Ancient Greek τρώγω (trṓgō, “eat”) (English trout and troglodyte) or Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌺𐌾𐌰𐌽 (dragkjan, “make drink”).

• IPA^(key): /tɾaˈɡaɾ/ [t̪ɾaˈɣ̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: tra‧gar

tragar (first-person singular present trago, first-person singular preterite tragué, past participle tragado)

1. (transitive, but often takes a reflexive pronoun) to swallow (to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach)

   Dijo algo tan ridículo que casi olvidé tragarme la comida.

   He said something so funny that I almost forgot to swallow my food.

2. (transitive, but often takes a reflexive pronoun) to swallow, consume, absorb (take (something) in so that it disappears)

   La oscuridad se tragó el bosque.

   The murk consumed the forest.

3. (transitive, but often takes a reflexive pronoun) to gulp, swallow, devour (eat quickly and eagerly)
4. (transitive, takes a reflexive pronoun) to buy into, fall for (easily believe something without questioning)
5. (transitive, takes a reflexive pronoun) to stand, tolerate

• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

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