colgar

From Latin collocāre (“set in place”).

colgar (first-person singular indicative present colgo, past participle colgáu)

1. to hang

   Synonyms: engolar, colingar, encolingar, trescollerar

Inherited from Latin collocāre (“set in place”). Doublet of col·locar.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kulˈɣa]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kolˈɣa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kolˈɣaɾ]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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colgar (first-person singular present colgo, first-person singular preterite colguí, past participle colgat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /o/

1. to bury

   Synonyms: enterrar, soterrar

• “colgar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “colgar”, 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

From Old Galician-Portuguese colgar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin collocāre (“set in place”). Doublet of the borrowed colocar. Cognate with English couch and collocate.

• IPA^(key): [kolˈɣaɾ]

colgar (first-person singular present colgo, first-person singular preterite colguei, past participle colgado)

1. to hang

   Synonyms: encolgar, pendurar

   Antonym: descolgar

   • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 685:

     Et hũus dizem que o enforcou com̃o a falsario; mays o arçebispo dom Rrodrigo, por apostar sua parauoa, diz que morreu colgado.

     And some say that he hanged him as a liar; but archbishop Don Rodrigo, to straighten his word, says he died hanged.

   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 441:

     Demays tĩjña ẽna mão hũ ençẽçario de hũ topaz moy claro et moy rrico, colgado de hũus fíos de ouro enlaçados et laurados a moy grã nobreza.

     Besides, he had in his hand a censer made of very rich and clear topaz, hanging from some gold threads tied and worked in the most noble manner

2. to hang up

   Antonym: descolgar

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

From Old Galician-Portuguese colgar (“hang”), from Latin collocāre (“set in place”). Doublet of colocar.

colgar (first-person singular present colgo, first-person singular preterite colguei, past participle colgado)

1. (archaic) synonym of pendurar

Inherited from Latin collocāre (“set in place”). Doublet of the borrowed colocar. Cognate with English couch and collocate.

• IPA^(key): /kolˈɡaɾ/ [kolˈɣ̞aɾ]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: col‧gar

colgar (first-person singular present cuelgo, first-person singular preterite colgué, past participle colgado)

1. (transitive) to hang

   Synonyms: pender, tender

   Antonym: descolgar

2. to hang up (the telephone, etc.)

   Antonym: descolgar

3. (computing) to upload

   Synonym: subir

   Antonym: descargar

4. (transitive, colloquial) (+ con) to hang out with, relax with
5. (reflexive, computing) to freeze, to hang (to come a sudden halt, stop working)

• suspender

• “colgar”, 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