fechar

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese fechar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin pesclum, from Latin pessulus (“bolt”). Probably a southern Portuguese variant, with the change of p to f reflecting Arabic influence.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: fe‧char

Verb

fechar (first-person singular present fecho, first-person singular preterite fechei, past participle fechado)

1. to lock
   • 1444, Á. Rodríguez González (ed.), Livro do Concello de Pontevedra (1431-1463). Pontevedra: Museo de Pontevedra, page 170:

     Item requereu mais o dito Sueiro Gomes ẽno dito conçello, que fesesen aderesçar os muros e portas da dita vila e as fesesen fechar

     Item, said Sueiro Gómez also requested at that council that they should repair said town's walls and gates and lock them

   Synonym: pechar

2. to close

   Synonym: cerrar

Conjugation

Derived terms

• fechado
• fecho

Related terms

• fecha

References

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

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese fechar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin pesclum, from Latin pessulus (“bolt”). Probably a southern Portuguese variant, with the change of p to f reflecting Arabic influence. By surface analysis, fecho +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: fe‧char

Verb

fechar (first-person singular present fecho, first-person singular preterite fechei, past participle fechado)

1. (transitive) to close
   • 2007, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter e as Relíquias da Morte [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows] (Harry Potter; 7), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 373:

     Devíamos fechar os olhos dele.

     We should close his eyes.

2. (transitive) to conclude (an agreement)
3. (transitive, video games) to complete (all levels of a video game)

   Synonyms: encerrar, cerrar, zerar, completar, virar

4. (intransitive) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
5. (takes a reflexive pronoun) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Conjugation

Further reading

• “fechar” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “fechar” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “fechar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “fechar” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “fechar” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “fechar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

From fecha +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /feˈt͡ʃaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: fe‧char

Verb

fechar (first-person singular present fecho, first-person singular preterite feché, past participle fechado)

1. (transitive) to date (determine when something happened)

Conjugation

Related terms

Further reading

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