mendigar
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mendigar, semi-learned borrowing from Latin mendicāre.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: men‧di‧gar
Verb edit
mendigar (first-person singular present mendigo, first-person singular preterite mendiguei, past participle mendigado)
- (transitive, intransitive) ask for alms
- (transitive) request with instance; beseech; plead
- (intransitive) be a beggar
- (vulgar, often derogatory) ask for something even if you don't need it
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of mendigar (g-gu alternation) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Quotations edit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:mendigar.
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Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin mendīcāre.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
mendigar (first-person singular present mendigo, first-person singular preterite mendigué, past participle mendigado)
- to beg
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of mendigar (g-gu alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of mendigar (g-gu alternation)
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
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Further reading edit
- “mendigar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014