llegar

• IPA^(key): /ʎeˈɡaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: lle‧gar

llegar (first-person singular indicative present llego, past participle llegáu)

1. Alternative form of allegar

Inherited from Latin legāre.

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

llegar (first-person singular present llego, first-person singular preterite lleguí, past participle llegat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. to hand down, to pass down

• “llegar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

llegar

1. Alternative spelling of legar when unlenited

Inherited from Latin plicāre (“to fold”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to plait, to weave”). The semantic shift over time from "to fold" is also found in some other Romance cognates, and may be linked to the idea of folding sails when arriving at a port, especially in Iberian Romance where naval tradition was strong. Compare Portuguese chegar; however compare also Romanian pleca (“to leave”), with the opposite meaning, possibly because there the word was associated with folding up tents and leaving. See also the Spanish doublet plegar (“to fold”). Another theory instead derives llegar from a Vulgar Latin plicāre as a regressive derivation from Classical Latin applicāre (“apply, add, attach, join to”).^[1] Cognate with English ply.

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: lle‧gar

llegar (first-person singular present llego, first-person singular preterite llegué, past participle llegado)

1. (intransitive) to arrive, get (to)

   Cuando llegues a casa, mándame un mensaje.

   When you get home, send me a message.

   • 2015 July 5, “Cocodrilos, ¡a desayunar!”, in El País‎:

     Tratad de llegadme enteros que faltan más de tres semanas y os he traído aquí porque os necesito.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (intransitive) to get up to, to go up to, to reach (+ a or + hasta)

   Llegué a la cima de la montaña.

   I got up to the top of the mountain.

3. (intransitive) to be sufficient; to be enough

   Un solo día no llega para visitar todos los museos.

   A single day is not enough to visit all the museums.

4. (intransitive) to manage (be successful)

   no llegué a conseguir el trabajo

   I didn't manage to get the job.

• salir, partir

• → Sicilian: agghicari

• “llegar”, 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