desplegar

From Late Latin displicāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [dəs.pləˈɣa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [des.pleˈɣaɾ]

desplegar (first-person singular present desplego, first-person singular preterite despleguí, past participle desplegat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/

1. (transitive, reflexive) to unfold, to spread out

   Antonym: plegar

2. (transitive) to deploy (troops etc.)
3. (transitive, figurative) to show off, demonstrate

• desplegament

• “desplegar”, 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
• “desplegar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “desplegar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “desplegar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Semi-learned borrowing from Late Latin displicāre, infinitive form of displicō (“to scatter”), from Latin dis- + plicō. By surface analysis, des- (“dis-”) +‎ plegar (“to fold”). Cognate with English deploy and display.

• IPA^(key): /despleˈɡaɾ/ [d̪es.pleˈɣ̞aɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: des‧ple‧gar

desplegar (first-person singular present despliego, first-person singular preterite desplegué, past participle desplegado)

1. to deploy, unfold

   Antonyms: plegar, doblar

• “desplegar”, 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