despregar

From Old Galician-Portuguese despregar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from des- +‎ pregar: compare Portuguese despregar and Spanish desplegar.

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despregar (first-person singular present desprego, first-person singular preterite despreguei, past participle despregado)

1. (transitive) to unfurl

   Synonyms: desencartar, desfaldrar

   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 512:

     Et alí cõmeçarõ de tanger moytas tronpas et moytos anafíjs, et quen alý tragía sina ou pendóm alý o despregaua et tendía

     And then many trumps and trumpets were blown, and whoever was carrying an ensign or pennon, there he unfurled and stretched it

2. (transitive) to deploy
3. (transitive, dated) to unstick, unpin

   Synonym: despegar

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

From des- +‎ pregar.

despregar (first-person singular present desprego, first-person singular preterite despreguei, past participle despregado)

1. to unstick, unpin

   Antonym: pregar