alugar

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese alugar, from Latin allocare. Cognate with Portuguese alugar and French louer.

• IPA^(key): /aluˈɣaɾ/

alugar (first-person singular present alugo, first-person singular preterite aluguei, past participle alugado)

1. (transitive) to hire, to employ
   • 1881, J. A, Saco y Arce (ed.), Literatura popular de Galicia:

     Miña ama do inverno / Alugaime polo vran / Para vos sachá-lo millo / E para comé-lo pan (folk song)

     My mistress of the winter, hire me in the summer, for collecting the corn, and for eating the bread

   Synonyms: contratar, empregar

2. (transitive) to rent
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 711:

     Et tragía doze naues, que alugara de mercadores por mil morauedís

     And he brought twelve ships that he had rented from merchants for a thousand moravedis

   Synonym: arrendar

3. (transitive) to rent out
   • 1293, José-Luis Novo Cazón, editor, El priorato santiaguista de Vilar de Donas en la Edad Media (1194-1500), A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 269:

     alugamos a uos Pedro Eanes e a uosa muler Maria Peres da Repostaria mea casa que y auemos na rua de Sant Antolio

     we rent out to you Pedro Eanes and to your wife Maria Perez da Respotaría my house that we have there in Saint Antony's street

   Synonym: arrendar

4. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to hire; to accept employment

• Note: alug- are changed to alugu- before front vowels (e).

• alugueiro
• aluguer

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

From Old Galician-Portuguese alugar, from Latin allocāre. Doublet of alocar, a borrowing.

• Hyphenation: a‧lu‧gar

alugar (first-person singular present alugo, first-person singular preterite aluguei, past participle alugado)

1. to rent, to hire

   Quero alugar um carro.

   I'd like to rent a car.

2. to let

   Queria alugar este quarto a um estudante.

   I want to let this room to a student.

• arrendar