golpear

Attested since 1370, displacing Old Galician-Portuguese colpar. From golpe +‎ -ear.

• IPA^(key):

golpear (first-person singular present golpeo, first-person singular preterite golpeei, past participle golpeado)
golpear (first-person singular present golpeio, first-person singular preterite golpeei, past participle golpeado, reintegrationist norm)

1. to hit, strike; to pound; to beat

   Synonyms: bater, pegar, petar, zoscar

   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 588:

     Mais el rrey Aias ficou del tã malchagado que nõ auía en el costado são, nẽ espinaço, nẽ mão, nẽ pe, nẽ braço, nẽ cabeça, nẽ peyto, ca des ome naçeu, nũca assý fuj õme desfeyto, nẽ golpeado

     But King Ajax was so badly wounded that he had no sound side, nor spine, nor hand, nor foot, nor arm, nor head, nor breast, because since Man had born never a man was so destroyed or beaten up

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “golpear”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “golpea”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “golpear”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “golpear”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “golpear”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “golpear” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “golpear”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From golpe +‎ -ear.

• Hyphenation: gol‧pe‧ar

golpear (first-person singular present golpeio, first-person singular preterite golpeei, past participle golpeado)

1. (transitive) to hit, strike (to give a blow)

   Synonym: bater

2. (transitive) to hurt

   Synonym: ferir

3. (transitive, figuratively) to distress

   Synonym: angustiar

• “golpear”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “golpear”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

From golpe +‎ -ear.

• IPA^(key): /ɡolpeˈaɾ/

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: gol‧pe‧ar

golpear (first-person singular present golpeo, first-person singular preterite golpeé, past participle golpeado)

1. to hit, to knock, to tap

• “golpear”, 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