sosegar

• asosegar

Attested since the 13th century (assessegar). From Vulgar Latin *sessicare (compare local Medieval Latin sessica (“site, sit”)), from sessus, past participle of sedeō. Compare Portuguese sossegar, Spanish sosegar.

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: so‧se‧gar

sosegar (first-person singular present sosego, first-person singular preterite soseguei, past participle sosegado)

1. (archaic) to secure, sit; to settle
   • 1433, Á. Rodriguez González & José Armas Castro (eds.), Minutario notarial de Pontevedra (1433-1435), Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, d. 1:

     Condiçon asosegada ontre as ditas partes

     Condition that was settled among said parts:

   Synonyms: asegurar, asentar

2. to calm

   Synonym: acougar

3. to calm down

   Synonym: acougar

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

Inherited from Old Spanish sessegar, from Vulgar Latin *sessicāre, from Latin sessus, perfect passive participle of sedeō.

• IPA^(key): /soseˈɡaɾ/

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: so‧se‧gar

sosegar (first-person singular present sosiego, first-person singular preterite sosegué, past participle sosegado)

1. to calm

   Synonyms: calmar, tranquilizar

2. to calm down

   Synonym: apaciguar

• “sosegar”, 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