colar

From Latin cōlāre.

colar (first-person singular indicative present colo, past participle coláu)

1. (transitive) to leave, go away, depart
2. to sift
3. to strain
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• (leave): marchar

Inherited from Latin cōlāre (compare Occitan colar, French couler, Spanish colar).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kuˈla]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [koˈla]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [koˈlaɾ]

colar (first-person singular present colo, first-person singular preterite colí, past participle colat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/

1. to sift, to filter (a liquid)
2. to pour the molten metal from the crucible into the mold
3. (reflexive) to enter somewhere without permit or paying, e. g. to crash (a party)
4. (reflexive) to advance before someone, in a queue, without waiting for the turn

• coladís

• “colar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “colar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Latin cōlāre.

colar (ORB, broad)

1. to flow, run
2. to strain, filter
3. to slip, glide

• couler in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• colar in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1201: “colare il latte” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “cōlare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 877

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese colar, from Latin collaris.

• IPA^(key): /koˈlaɾ/ [koˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ

colar m (plural colares)

1. collar
2. necklace

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

colar

1. first-person singular future passive indicative of colō

• collar (pre-reform spelling)

Inherited from Late Latin collāre, from Latin collāris + -āre.

• Hyphenation: co‧lar

colar m (plural colares)

1. necklace, chain
2. (clothing) collar

From cola +‎ -ar. Senses to receive one’s university diploma and to invest are a back-formation from colação.

• Hyphenation: co‧lar

colar (first-person singular present colo, first-person singular preterite colei, past participle colado)

1. to glue (to join with glue)
2. to affix, to attach, to tie together
3. to invest (to receive a priest's collar)
4. to settle a bill
5. (Brazil, slang) to approach, to get closer to (someone or somewhere)
6. (Brazil, slang) to use a copy of content to help to complete a school or university test, often illegally
7. (Brazil, computing, transitive) to paste (to insert a piece of media previously copied or cut from somewhere else)
8. (Brazil, usually as colar grau) to receive one’s university diploma, especially in a ceremonial manner
9. (Brazil, transitive) to invest (to ceremonially install someone in some office)

   Synonym: investir

“colar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• IPA^(key): /koˈlaɾ/ [koˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: co‧lar

Inherited from Latin cōlāre whence English coulee and colander.

colar (first-person singular present cuelo, first-person singular preterite colé, past participle colado)

1. to sift, to strain, to filter
2. (Dominican Republic, Cuba) to prepare coffee
3. (colloquial) to dupe, hoodwink
4. (colloquial) to missay, say wrongly
5. (reflexive, colloquial) to fall for, fall in love
6. (reflexive, colloquial) to sneak into, to crash
   • 2019 July 7, Nando Cruz, “Perreando contra Blackstone”, in El Periódico‎^[1]:

     Por los altavoces suena 'Million dollar baby', de Cecilio G, el primer trapero que apoyó esta lucha. "A los 15 años me colaba en Razzmatazz / A los 16 me colé en el Sónar / Ahora el Sónar me paga por cantar", canturrea el público con visible entusiasmo.

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   • 2021 March 25, Manuel Ansede, “El mayor estudio hasta la fecha confirma la 'singularidad genética' de los vascos”, in El País‎^[2]:

     El antropólogo francés Paul Broca se coló una noche de 1862 en el cementerio de Zarautz para robar cráneos con los que estudiar las presuntas peculiaridades de lo que entonces se consideraba una raza primitiva.

     The French anthropologist Paul Broca sneaked into the Zarautz cemetery one night in 1862 to steal skulls with which to study the presumed peculiarities of what was then considered a primitive race.

7. to sift through, comb through

• tamizar

A back-formation from Latin collātus, past participle of cōnferō (“to confer”).

colar (first-person singular present colo, first-person singular preterite colé, past participle colado)

1. (Christianity) to canonically confer (an ecclesiastical benefit)

• “colar”, 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