pego

English

Etymology

Uncertain.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpiːɡəʊ/

Noun

pego (plural pegos)

1. (archaic, slang) The penis.
   • 2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 758:

     Lately, he has come to dread Sugarʼs overtures of love, for his pego has remained flaccid when he would most wish to have use of it.

Anagrams

• poge

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Verb

pego

1. first-person singular present indicative of pegar

Esperanto

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -eɡo
• Hyphenation: pe‧go

Noun

pego (accusative singular pegon, plural pegoj, accusative plural pegojn)

1. woodpecker

Hyponyms

• birdo

Galician

Etymology 1

Perhaps from a non-Celtic substrate language related to Lusitanian, from Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- (“to paint, mark, embroider”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Adjective

pego (feminine pega, masculine plural pegos, feminine plural pegas)

1. variegated

   Synonyms: apigarado, multicolor, pégaro, pinto

Related terms

• apigarado
• pégaro

References

• “pego” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “pego” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “pego” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology 2

Verb

pego

1. first-person singular present indicative of pegar

Ido

Noun

pego (plural pegi)

1. woodpecker

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From pega, from Latin pica.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɡu
• Hyphenation: pe‧go

Noun

pego m (plural pegos)

1. Eurasian oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus)

Etymology 2

From Old Galician-Portuguese peego, from Latin pelagus (“sea”), from Ancient Greek πέλαγος (pélagos). Doublet of pélago.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛɡu
• Hyphenation: pe‧go

Noun

pego m (plural pegos)

1. the bottom of the sea
2. the deepest point of a body of water
3. an underwater cave

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛɡu
• Hyphenation: pe‧go

Verb

pego

1. first-person singular present indicative of pegar

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛɡu, -eɡu
• Hyphenation: pe‧go

Participle

pego (short participle, feminine pega, masculine plural pegos, feminine plural pegas)

1. (Brazil) past participle of pegar

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

pego (Cyrillic spelling пего)

1. vocative singular of pega

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɡo/
• Rhymes: -eɡo
• Syllabification: pe‧go

Etymology 1

Deverbal from pegar.

Noun

pego m (plural pegos)

1. (card games) a trick consisting of taking two cards from the pack instead of one

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

pego

1. first-person singular present indicative of pegar

Further reading

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