bordear

15th century. From bordo (“border”) +‎ -ear, or directly from Old French border; from Frankish *bord, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *burdą.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /boɾðeˈaɾ/

bordear (first-person singular present bordeo, first-person singular preterite bordeei, past participle bordeado)
bordear (first-person singular present bordeio, first-person singular preterite bordeei, past participle bordeado, reintegrationist norm)

1. (ambitransitive) to border, to flak, to skirt (to lie on, or adjacent to a border)

   Synonyms: abeirar, flanquear

   • 1447, M. del Carmen Sánchez Carrera, editor, El Bajo Miño en el siglo XV. El espacio y los hombres, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 327:

     Item mays o pardinneiro que esta enna testeira da vinna onde esta a figueira bordiando et outro meo pardinneiro que esta na testeira [da] dita vinna con a carvalla que esta iunto con o dito meo pardinneiro.

     Item, the ruins that are in the extreme of the vineyard where there is a bordering fig tree, and another half of a ruined building that is at the extreme of the aforementioned vineyard with the oak that is next to it.

2. to skirt (to move around or along the border)

   Synonym: flanquear

3. to hug the coastline

   Synonym: costear

• borda
• bordar
• bordo

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “bordia”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “bordear”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “bordear”, 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), “bordear”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “bordear”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From borde (“edge, border”) +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /boɾdeˈaɾ/ [boɾ.ð̞eˈaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: bor‧de‧ar

bordear (first-person singular present bordeo, first-person singular preterite bordeé, past participle bordeado)

1. to border

• “bordear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024