quecer

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Galician

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese caesçer, from Latin calēscere (to heat up), frequentative of caleō (to be warm). Cognate with Portuguese aquecer and Asturian calecer.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kɛˈθeɾ/, (western) /kɛˈseɾ/

Verb

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quecer (first-person singular present quezo, first-person singular preterite quecín, past participle quecido)
quecer (first-person singular present queço, first-person singular preterite quecim or queci, past participle quecido, reintegrationist norm)

  1. (intransitive) to warm up
    • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 89:
      as pedras, que jaziam sempre quedas et frias, sem toda natura de alma, et nũca se mouyam nẽ caesçiam senõ seas mouya ou caentaua outro
      the stones, which were always quiet and cold, absolutely soulless, which never moved or warmed up except if another moved or warmed them
  2. (transitive) to heat
    Synonym: quentar
  3. (intransitive) to heat (when a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile)

Conjugation

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References

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  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “caliente”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos