despreguiçar
Portuguese
Etymology
From des- + preguiça (“laziness”) + -ar.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /des.pɾe.ɡiˈsa(ʁ)/ [des.pɾe.ɡiˈsa(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /des.pɾe.ɡiˈsa(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /deʃ.pɾe.ɡiˈsa(ʁ)/ [deʃ.pɾe.ɡiˈsa(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /des.pɾe.ɡiˈsa(ɻ)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /dɨʃ.pɾɨ.ɡiˈsaɾ/ [dɨʃ.pɾɨ.ɣiˈsaɾ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /dɨʃ.pɾɨ.ɡiˈsa.ɾi/ [dɨʃ.pɾɨ.ɣiˈsa.ɾi]
- Hyphenation: des‧pre‧gui‧çar
Verb
despreguiçar (first-person singular present despreguiço, first-person singular preterite despreguicei, past participle despreguiçado)
- synonym of espreguiçar
Conjugation
Conjugation of despreguiçar (c-ç alternation) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Further reading
- “despreguiçar”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2025
- “despreguiçar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025