engavetar
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Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.ɡa.veˈta(ʁ)/ [ẽ.ɡa.veˈta(h)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.ɡa.veˈta(ʁ)/ [ĩ.ɡa.veˈta(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.ɡa.veˈta(ɾ)/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.ɡa.veˈta(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.ɡa.veˈta(ʁ)/ [ẽ.ɡa.veˈta(χ)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.ɡa.veˈta(ʁ)/ [ĩ.ɡa.veˈta(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.ɡa.veˈta(ɻ)/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.ɡa.veˈta(ɻ)/
Verb
[edit]engavetar (first-person singular present engaveto, first-person singular preterite engavetei, past participle engavetado)
- (transitive) to store in a drawer
- (transitive, figurative) to shelve (a proposal, application, etc.)
- (intransitive) to crash into another railway car (of a railway car, in an accident)
- (intransitive or reflexive) to collide together (of cars or other vehicles, in an accident)
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of engavetar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Conjugation of engavetar-se (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “engavetar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “engavetar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]engavetar (first-person singular present engaveto, first-person singular preterite engaveté, past participle engavetado)
- (Latin America, transitive) to sweep under the rug (to conceal a problem rather than dealing with it)
- 2017 January 26, “Retrato del adolescente cubano”, in Juventud Rebelde[1]:
- A juicio de este reportero debe apostarse por no engavetar los resultados; convirtámoslos en arma útil para el andar cotidiano.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of engavetar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Further reading
[edit]- “engavetar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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