espreguiçar
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From es- + preguiça (“laziness”) + -ar.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: es‧pre‧gui‧çar
Verb
[edit]espreguiçar (first-person singular present espreguiço, first-person singular preterite espreguicei, past participle espreguiçado)
- to stretch
- (reflexive) to stretch (to extend one’s limbs or body in order to stretch the muscles)
- 2023, Djalma do Nascimento Sousa, chapter V, in Memórias do Sul do Maranhão, Maranhão, published 2023, page 115:
- Se espreguiçar é uma maneira de tirar as dores do corpo, já hoje é uma maneira de tirar várias doenças modernas; como: estresse, pois é assim que muitos ainda hoje cuidam do corpo.
- Stretching is a way of getting rid of body aches and pains, and today it's a way of getting rid of many modern illnesses, such as stress, because that's how many people still take care of their bodies today.
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of espreguiçar (c-ç alternation) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Related terms
[edit]Categories:
- Portuguese terms prefixed with es-
- Portuguese terms suffixed with -ar
- Portuguese 4-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese 5-syllable words
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese verbs
- Portuguese verbs ending in -ar
- Portuguese verbs with c-ç alternation
- Portuguese reflexive verbs
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