entregar

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin integrāre, probably taken as a semi-learned term. Sense “to deliver” influenced by Spanish entregar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Verb

entregar (first-person singular present entrego, first-person singular preterite entreguí, past participle entregat); root stress: (Central, Valencian, Balearic) /e/

1. to deliver

   Synonym: lliurar

2. to hand in, give in

Conjugation

Related terms

• enter

Further reading

• “entregar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “entregar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “entregar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese entregar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), a semi-learned borrowing from Latin integrāre. Doublet of integrar (“to make up, compose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /entɾeˈɡaɾ/

Verb

entregar (first-person singular present entrego, first-person singular preterite entreguei, past participle entregado)

1. (transitive) to deliver
2. (transitive) to submit
3. (transitive) to turn in, hand in, give in
4. (transitive, archaic) to restore, return
5. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to surrender (oneself)
6. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to commit (oneself)

Conjugation

Related terms

• enteiro
• entrego
• integrar
• íntegro

References

• “entregar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “entregar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “entregar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “entregar” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
• “entregar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “entregar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “entregar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese entregar, probably a semi-learned term taken from Latin integrāre. Doublet of integrar and inteirar.

Pronunciation

Verb

entregar (first-person singular present entrego, first-person singular preterite entreguei, past participle entregado, short past participle entregue)

2. (transitive) to deliver (to transport something to a destination)

   O carteiro entregou-me uma carta de minha mãe.

   The mailman delivered a letter from my mother to me.

4. (transitive) to deliver; to hand over; to surrender (to relinquish control or possession of)

   Synonym: dar

   O general teve que entregar a cidade após meses de cerco.

   The general had to hand the city over after months of siege.

6. (informal, transitive) to reveal (to show non-obvious information)

   A vermelhidão do rosto entregava seu constrangimento.

   The redness on her face revealed her embarrassment.

8. (slang, transitive) to snitch; to grass; to inform on; to betray to (to report a criminal to the authorities)

   Synonyms: delatar, dedurar

   Judas entregou Jesus aos romanos.

   Judas betrayed Jesus to the Romans.

10. (takes a reflexive pronoun, intransitive, or transitive with a) to surrender (to) (to give oneself up to the authorities)

    Um psicopata veio à delegacia para se entregar.

    A psychopath came to the police station to surrender.

12. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to reveal negative information about oneself, especially accidentally

    O suspeito negava as acusações, mas os interrogadores fizeram-no se entregar.

    The suspect denied the accusations, but the interrogators made him incriminate himself.

13. (reflexive) to surrender; to submit (to give oneself up into the power of another)

    Synonyms: render-se, capitular, ceder

14. (reflexive) to give away (to unintentionally reveal a secret)

    Synonym: denunciar

Conjugation

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:entregar.

Synonyms

• (to surrender oneself): render-se (a)

Derived terms

• entrega

Related terms

• inteiro
• integro

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin integrāre with metathesis, present active infinitive of integrō, with a semi-learned influence (cf. medieval Spanish entrego). Compare the doublets integrar (“to make up, compose”) and enterar (“to inform, ascertain”). Cognate with English integrate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /entɾeˈɡaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: en‧tre‧gar

Verb

entregar (first-person singular present entrego, first-person singular preterite entregué, past participle entregado)

1. (transitive) to deliver, to hand over, to hand off
2. (transitive) to submit
3. (transitive) to turn in (e.g. homework), hand in
4. (reflexive) to surrender (oneself)

Conjugation

Related terms

Further reading

• “entregar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014