doblegar

Inherited from Latin duplicāre. Compare the doublet duplicar, which was borrowed from Latin.

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

doblegar (first-person singular present doblego, first-person singular preterite dobleguí, past participle doblegat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/

1. (transitive, reflexive) to fold, bend

   Synonyms: doblar, plegar

• doblec

• “doblegar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “doblegar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin duplicāre, probably through the intermediate of Catalan doblegar in the 15th century, as it was not found earlier in Old Spanish texts and is completely absent in Portuguese as well.^[1] Doublet of duplicar, which was later borrowed directly from Latin.

• IPA^(key): /dobleˈɡaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: do‧ble‧gar

doblegar (first-person singular present doblego, first-person singular preterite doblegué, past participle doblegado)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to bring down, vanquish, conquer, topple, defeat
2. (transitive, reflexive) to fold, bend

   Synonyms: doblar, plegar

3. (transitive, mathematics) to divide by two
4. (reflexive) to kneel down

• “doblegar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28

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