arcar

• arquear, arquejar

• Hyphenation: ar‧car

From arca (“ark”) +‎ -ar.

arcar (first-person singular present arco, first-person singular preterite arquei, past participle arcado)

1. (intransitive) to shoulder
2. (intransitive) to afford
3. (transitive or intransitive) to tussle
4. (intransitive) to pant (to breathe quickly)

From Latin arcuāre (“to bend like a bow”). By surface analysis, arco (“arch”) +‎ -ar.

arcar (first-person singular present arco, first-person singular preterite arquei, past participle arcado)

1. (intransitive) to bow (become bent)
2. (transitive) to bow (bend a thing)
3. (transitive) to hoop (to bind using a hoop)

• “arcar”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “arcar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “arcar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “arcar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Probably from arc +‎ -ar or possibly from Vulgar Latin *arcārius, alteration of arcuārius (“maker of bows”), from Latin arcus.

arcar m (plural arcari)

1. (archaic) maker or vendor of bows