tragar

• IPA^(key): /tɾaˈɡaɾ/, [t̪ɾaˈɣ̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: tra‧gar

tragar (first-person singular indicative present trago, past participle tragáu)

1. to swallow (to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach)

Variant form of dragar.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /tɾəˈɡa/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /tɾaˈɡaɾ/

tragar (first-person singular present trago, past participle tragat)

1. (transitive) to swallow
2. (transitive) to devour

• tragador
• traganeu
• traga-sabres

• “tragar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Old Galician-Portuguese tragar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria). Compare Portuguese tragar and Spanish tragar.

• IPA^(key): [tɾaˈɣaɾ]

tragar (first-person singular present trago, first-person singular preterite traguei, past participle tragado)

1. to swallow

   Synonym: engulir

• Note: trag- are changed to tragu- before front vowels (e).

• atragoar
• trago
• tragueira

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

From Vulgar Latin *tragō, most likely borrowed from τράγω, the Doric form of Ancient Greek τρώγω (trṓgō, “to eat, swallow”).

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: tra‧gar

tragar (first-person singular present trago, first-person singular preterite traguei, past participle tragado)

1. to gulp down
2. to quaff (drink with vigour, in large draughts)
3. to devour; to engulf (to surround or cover)
4. to stand; to withstand (to resist or endure something successfully)

   Synonyms: aguentar, aturar, suportar

5. to inhale smoke from a cigarette

• tragável

From Vulgar Latin *tragō, most likely borrowed from τράγω, the Doric form of Ancient Greek τρώγω (trṓgō, “to eat, swallow”). Alternatively, according to Coromines, likely a denominalization of dracō (“dragon”), in the sense of one who swallows or devours, but this is most certainly folk etymology.

• IPA^(key): /tɾaˈɡaɾ/ [t̪ɾaˈɣ̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: tra‧gar

tragar (first-person singular present trago, first-person singular preterite tragué, past participle tragado)

1. (transitive, but often takes a reflexive pronoun) to swallow (to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach)

   Dijo algo tan ridículo que casi olvidé tragarme la comida.

   He said something so funny that I almost forgot to swallow my food.

2. (transitive, but often takes a reflexive pronoun) to swallow, consume, absorb (take (something) in so that it disappears)

   La oscuridad se tragó el bosque.

   The murk consumed the forest.

3. (transitive, but often takes a reflexive pronoun) to gulp, swallow, devour (eat quickly and eagerly)
4. (transitive, takes a reflexive pronoun) to buy into, fall for (easily believe something without questioning)
5. (transitive, takes a reflexive pronoun) to stand, tolerate
6. (proscribed, colloquial) to eat

• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

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