cebar

From ceba +‎ -ar.

cebar m (plural cebars)

1. onion field

   Synonym: ceballar

• “cebar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024

• cevar (reintegrationist)

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin cibāre. Cognate with Portuguese cevar and Spanish cebar.

• IPA^(key): , (western)

cebar (first-person singular present cebo, first-person singular preterite cebei, past participle cebado)

1. (transitive) to fatten
2. (transitive) to feed, fodder
3. (pronominal) to feed
   • 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 142:

     o conde foy logo ferir enos mouros muy de rigeo, assy com̃o a aguia famienta ena caça quando sse quer çeuar

     the count then went to clash stoutly with the Moors, as the hungry eagle wants to feed when chasing

4. (transitive) to fertilize
5. (transitive) to bait

• ceba
• cebado

• cebada
• cebeira

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “çevar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “ceva”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cebar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “cebar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cebar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cebar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Latin cibāre.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θeˈbaɾ/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /seˈbaɾ/

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ce‧bar

cebar (first-person singular present cebo, first-person singular preterite cebé, past participle cebado)

1. to bait
2. to fatten, feed

   Synonyms: engordar, alimentar, fomentar

3. to charge, load

   Synonym: rellenar

   cebar los cañones ― ready the cannons

4. (reflexive) to turn on, vent, attack

   Synonyms: ensañar, encarnizar

   El racista se ceba con los pobres. ― The racist takes his anger out on the poor.

   • 2020 July 16, “¿De verdad las películas de Clint Eastwood son una ofensa moral para las mujeres?”, in El País‎:

     He recordado la anécdota a propósito del último estreno de Clint Eastwood, Mula, y de cierta crítica ideológica y de género que suele cebarse con el cineasta de 88 años, declarado votante de Trump.

     I remembered the anecdote about the latest release from Clint Eastwood, Mula, and about certain ideological and gendered criticisms that the 88-year-old filmmaker, a professed Trump voter, is often attacked with.

5. to add hot water to the yerba mate

   cebar el mate ― prepare maté

6. to prime (fill with priming liquid)

• “cebar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10