anegar

Attested since the 14th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese , from Latin ēnecāre, present active infinitive of ēnecō (“I kill”), or through a Vulgar Latin form *adnecāre, derived from necō. Compare Portuguese anegar, Spanish anegar, French noyer, Italian annegare, Romanian îneca, which also received the specialized sense of "to drown" from Late or Vulgar Latin.

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anegar (first-person singular present anego, first-person singular preterite aneguei, past participle anegado)

1. (archaic) to sink
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 286:

     Mays ouueron moy mao vento, que lles tolleu sua passagen, ca sse leuãtou hũa grã tormenta, fea et escura et pauorosa, que lles rreuolueu todo o mar et lles durou todo o día, tã braua que as naues ouueran de quebrar et de sse anegar a fondo.

     But they had many bad winds, that grabbed their passage, because a great storm raised, ugly and dark and dreadful, that make the sea rough and lasted for the whole day, so wild that the ships almost broke and sank to the bottom.

2. (transitive or pronominal) to flood, inundate, drown

   Synonyms: alagar, asolagar, inundar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “anegar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “aneg”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “anegar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “anegar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “anegar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “anegar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *adnecāre, prefixed from Latin necāre (“murder”). The verb's sense specialized to 'drown' throughout Romance; compare French noyer, Italian annegare, Romanian îneca, Portuguese anegar.

• IPA^(key): /aneˈɡaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧ne‧gar

anegar (first-person singular present anego, first-person singular preterite anegué, past participle anegado)

1. (transitive) to inundate, to flood

   Synonym: inundar

2. (transitive) to drown

   Synonym: ahogar

• “anegar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28