cebar

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin cibāre, present active infinitive of cibō. Cognate with Portuguese cevar and Spanish cebar.

• IPA^(key): [θeˈbaɾ], (western) [seˈbaɾ]

cebar (first-person singular present cebo, first-person singular preterite cebei, past participle cebado)

1. (transitive) to fatten
2. (transitive) to feed, fodder
3. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to feed
   • 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 142:

     o conde foy logo ferir enos mouros muy de rigeo, assy com̃o a aguia famienta ena caça quando sse quer çeuar

     the count then went to clash stoutly with the Moors, as the hungry eagle wants to feed when chasing

4. (transitive) to fertilize
5. (transitive) to bait

• ceba
• cebado

• cebada
• cebeira

• “çevar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “ceva” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “cebar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cebar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cebar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Latin cibāre, present active infinitive of cibō.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θeˈbaɾ/ [θeˈβ̞aɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /seˈbaɾ/ [seˈβ̞aɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ce‧bar

cebar (first-person singular present cebo, first-person singular preterite cebé, past participle cebado)

1. to bait
2. to fatten, feed

   Synonyms: engordar, alimentar, fomentar

3. to charge, load

   Synonym: rellenar

   cebar los cañones ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

4. (reflexive) to turn on, vent, attack

   Synonyms: ensañar, encarnizar

   El racista se ceba con los pobres. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   • 2020 July 16, “¿De verdad las películas de Clint Eastwood son una ofensa moral para las mujeres?”, in El País‎:

     He recordado la anécdota a propósito del último estreno de Clint Eastwood, Mula, y de cierta crítica ideológica y de género que suele cebarse con el cineasta de 88 años, declarado votante de Trump.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

5. to add hot water to the yerba mate

   cebar el mate ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

6. to prime (fill with priming liquid)

• “cebar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014