desplegar

Late Latin displicāre

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /dəs.pləˈɡa/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /des.pleˈɡaɾ/

desplegar (first-person singular present desplego, past participle desplegat)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to unfold, to spread out

   Antonym: plegar

2. (transitive) to deploy (troops etc.)
3. (transitive, figurative) to show off, demonstrate

• desplegament

• “desplegar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “desplegar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “desplegar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “desplegar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Semi-learned borrowing from Late Latin displicāre, infinitive form of displicō (“to scatter”), from Latin dis- + plicō. Synchronically analyzable as des- (“dis-”) +‎ plegar (“to fold”). Cognate with English deploy and display.

• IPA^(key): /despleˈɡaɾ/ [d̪es.pleˈɣ̞aɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: des‧ple‧gar

desplegar (first-person singular present despliego, first-person singular preterite desplegué, past participle desplegado)

1. to deploy, unfold

   Antonyms: plegar, doblar

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