atopar

• topar

atopar (first-person singular indicative present atopo, past participle atopáu)

1. to find

• topar

From Old Galician-Portuguese topar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), ultimately either onomatopoeic or from Proto-Germanic *tuppaz (“end”).

• IPA^(key): /atoˈpaɾ/

atopar (first-person singular present atopo, first-person singular preterite atopei, past participle atopado)

1. (intransitive) to end, limit
   • 1299, E. Duro Peña (ed.), El Monasterio de S. Pedro de Rocas y su colección documental. Ourense: Instituto de Estudios Orensanos "Padre Feijoo", page 166:

     ainda vos damos duas leiras que som do noso lugar de Sam Yurgo de Moreyras, as quaes yazen doutra parte o río de Esgos contra Pedrayo, e topam anbas no río sobre dito

     we even give you two plots of land which are in our place of San Xurxo de Moreiras, which lie on the other side of the river of Esgos, near Pedraio, and both limit with the aforementioned river

   Synonym: estremar

2. (intransitive or pronominal) to meet

   Atopeime co teu irmán no super. ― I met your brother at the grocery.

   Synonym: encontrar

3. (transitive) to find

   Synonyms: achar, encontrar

4. (transitive) to hit, strike, collide, bump into

   Synonym: chocar

5. (pronominal) to be, feel

   Atópome mal. ― I'm feeling sick.

   Synonyms: encontrar, estar, sentir

• tope

• “atopar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “topar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “top”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “atopar”, 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), “atopar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “atopar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “atopar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN